Re: Mouse fun & games

From: Henrik Carlqvist (Henrik.Carlqvist_at_deadspam.com)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:29:56 +0200

"Little Monster" <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> The Primax (8 button) mouse saga continues...
>
> With Slack 8.2, this mouse worked with the explorerps/2 protocol and
> less well with the imps/2 protocol, with the difference that with the
> imps2 protocol the 3 extra buttons on the side made the cursor jump and
> with explorerps/2 they did nothing.

Is that an USB mouse? Would you mind writing some C-code? If you answer
yes to the first question and no to the second question you might find
the following links useful:

This link describes a simple program which translates your mouse buttons
to X events:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=evdev+event+%23include+input.h&hl=sv&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=a24a67c5.0308250859.7214b07f%40posting.google.com&rnum=3

Another way which I think is a little bit more clumsy is to patch the
Linux kernel:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg03768.html

regards Henrik 

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