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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-angers.fr!ciril.fr!news.imag.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-bpclermont.fr!llaic!espel From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: middle mouse button? Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:37:20 GMT Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5cts70$iqs@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> References: <5bpf6s$54n@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> <32E0BDAB.59E2B600@freebsd.org> <5c6a81$5bc@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <5cdntl$hg1@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34832 In article <5cdntl$hg1@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote: > >> To make matters worse, when I boot Linux I can start gpm (the text-mode >> selection tool) which also takes a mouse protocol as an argument, and >> one of the possible protocols is "Microsoft with 3-button extension", >> and *that* works! > >I'd suggest you hack the XFree86 Microsoft mouse code according to the >protocol as you should be able to obtain from the Linux code, and >submitt it to them. And that, of course, would have been the right solution (if I had the XFree sources on my PC, or anything better than a diskette/IP connection to the net) ... but as it turned out the problem was just that I was running moused together with XFree, which caused all kinds of problems (esp. when telling XFree to change the mouse's protocol). Without moused, ClearDTR/ClearRTS switch it to MouseSystems mode, and the 3 buttons work. Thanks for the suggestions though :) Roger -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html