by Erik Coutur » Fri, 27 Aug 1999 04:00:00
1. help with Alps glidepoint and/or Alps glidepoint+keyboard?
I finally got sick enough of my cheesy $8.00 keyboard and $9.00 mouse
that I picked up an Alps glidepoint keyboard. It's fairly nice, but a
number of the features don't seem to work with Linux out of the box.
(The manual says they're controlled by running configuration software
under MS-DOS or MS Windows.)
Does anyone have any suggestions? (Other than "don't support closed-minded,
incompatible vendors, return the thing for a refund!" -- I've thought of
that already. :-)
Also, I have a bus mouse port on my ATI graphics card. (Ultra Plus?
I forget, and the manual is packed away.) Is there any way to connect
a PS2 compatible mouse (e.g. the glidepoint mouse before I stick
their adapter on the end of the cable) to that port and have it
work? (Or am I just confused in my vague recollection that PS/2 mice
are bus mice?)
In case you're thinking of getting an Alps keyboard or glidepoint for
Linux, it is nice for pointing. It would be nice for clicking if I
could get the tapping feature to work with Linux; without it it's
probably OK, but will take some getting used to. (It feels awkward to
point by motions involving no pressure at all -- just electrostatic
effects? -- and then have to click hard on the rather stiff mechanical
buttons. It might also be nice for dragging and selecting if I could
get the tapping feature to work, but without it it's kinda clunky for
that.
This stuff works works with Linux:
-- all three `mouse' buttons, hurrah!
This stuff doesn't work with Linux, as far as I can tell:
-- tapping the glide pad to emulate a button press;
-- sending useful keyboard events when the new Windows 95 keys are pressed;
-- remapping the big wide delete key back to send space characters.
Any help would be appreciated. Please send replies or copies of
replies by e-mail, and I will post a summary if there's any interest.
Bill Newman
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