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The subject line says it all - XFree86 supports IntelliMouse *unless*
it's on the PS/2 port. Needless to say, everybody now supplies
IntelliMice on their PS/2 ports, so we all either buy another mouse or
use them as PS/2 mice with a simulated third button.

What are the prospects for support in XFree86 under Linux?

Thanks

John

Quote:>The subject line says it all - XFree86 supports IntelliMouse *unless*
>it's on the PS/2 port. Needless to say, everybody now supplies
>IntelliMice on their PS/2 ports, so we all either buy another mouse or
>use them as PS/2 mice with a simulated third button.

>What are the prospects for support in XFree86 under Linux?

>Thanks

>John

                                 Volodya Dergachev

The Intellimice are all PS/2 mice, but you can use an adapter to connect
them to the 9-pin serial port.  I bought mine separately, and it came with
the adapter, but I don't know if PC sellers would include that or not.  Of
course, if you hate the idea of wasting that PS/2 port and using up another
serial port, I'm afraid you're SOL.

Since it works in Win95 on the PS/2 port, there's obviously not a hardware
limitation involved, but I'm guessing they didn't want to revamp the PS/2
code to handle this specific driver, whereas they already have multiple
serial mouse drivers.  With any luck, maybe we'll see it in a future release
(4.0?).

BTW, I've already asked this question, but so far there's been no response
that I can see.  The IntelliMouse driver maps wheel rotation up to button4
and down to button5.  So far, I've gotten several of my applications to
respond to these events by scrolling the window (using application specific
xresources), but I'd like to find a way to just map them to the pageup and
pagedown keys so that I don't have to configure all of my apps individually.
Does anyone out there know of a way to map button events to keypress events?
If you post a response to this question, please CC: your answer to me as
well, since I don't watch this newsgroup very carefully.

;-)

Ivan