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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 3 button mice and FreeBSD Date: 29 Apr 1994 04:59:37 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2pqi9p$4dg@panix2.panix.com> References: <767565393snz@casa.demon.co.uk> <michaelv.767571719@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com In article <michaelv.767571719@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote: >In <767565393snz@casa.demon.co.uk> matthew@casa.demon.co.uk (Matthew de Woeps) writes: > >>Hello, >> Is there a 3 button mouse that can be used on FreeBSD? > >I use a Logitech busmouse (it's 3-button) with NetBSD-current and >XFree86-2.1 with absolutely no problems. For those among us who can spare a serial port, the *very cheapest* mouse made by Imsi, the "Pet Mouse", is a switchable Microsoft/Mouse systems compatible 3-button serial mose. In Mouse Systems mode, it works well enough with XFree86 that I haven't bothered to try my hand at fixing the PS/2 mouse driver, which was when last I approached the matter Not A Really Big Deal. (In fact, several eons ago I _did_ hack up the PS/2 mouse driver to work with -current, but -current has changed enough that it's not worth my trouble to have back at it, I think.) The main reason I see no need to use my Dell's built-in PS/2 mouse port is that PS/2 mice are only two-button. Way back when X was still X10, not X11, I developed enough hatred for the both-buttons-hack on a HP300 that I never care to try it again... -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud