On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:23:27PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Thursday 05 September 2002 13:13, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > Has anybody out there has any luck with using the glidepad and
> > stick/nipple *separately* on the Dell Inspiron series of laptops?
> >
> > With separately, I mean e.g. using the stick for scrolling
> > (Z-Axis-Mapping style), and the glidepad for moving the mouse?
> >
> > Basically, I'd like to use the stick as a substitute for scrolling,
> > while leaving the glidepad to do the mousey bits...
>
> to do this you would have to convince X that the stick is a wheel. As I
> understand it the wheel works by pretending to be buttons 4 and 5.
I tried that - unfortunately the stick just sends mouse movements :-)
As far as I can see tpconfig can't help here either - although it looks
like it might be able to turn the edges of the glidepad into a wheel.
The annoying thing is that I *believe* that the other OS ('98?) could
distinguish between the stick and the pad... Argh!
--
Karl E. Jørgensen
karl@jorgensen.com
www.karl.jorgensen.com
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