Re: mouse buttons...still...
>
> That gives me three working buttons on my allegedly five-button
> Kensington TurboMouse (the kernel picks up that it has five
> buttons (four physical, one chord), but I've never figured out how
> to get them all to work).
>
Ahh...so the turbo mouse has to be plugged in at startup then? My XF86Setup
file is the same as yours right now.
>
> I still have to run xmodmap manually to load a file with
> ``pointer = 1 3 2'' every time I start X, though, in order to make
> the upper-left button be the middle mouse button (for reasons I
> utterly fail to understand, my .Xmodmap file is read when X
> starts, but apparently not applied). Very annoying.
>
...huh? :) Ya lost me. :) I've never played with xmodmap...<<checks the
manpage>> hmm...ok...a little more sense now. I'll probably have to do the
same with mine then. Kensington Turbo mouse, Model #64210?
>
> JM> Last time I asked this, the only response I got back was
> JM> "buy a cheap 3-button USB mouse". Sorry, that isn't a
> JM> solution. I'm on an ADB only machine. (G3 all-in-one, aka
> JM> beige G3-233)
>
> Buy a nice multiple-button ADB mouse, then! Having real buttons
> is really nice (and I love my TurboMouse).
>
I currently have access to one myself, but it's being used on another Mac.
If it's plugged in at startup, I _should_ concievably be able to swap it in
and out as I need it?
> Sadly, X setup for PPC is seriously broken. If you don't have the
> same kind of machine as someone else who's already figured out a
> working configuration, you may have a hard road to walk to get
> one.
I had some troubles until I unchecked the "Use Video Driver" box in BootX
(having a bitch of a time getting yaboot to work on this thing, mostly
because it's an oldworld and OF isn't displayed on screen properly), now it
just works fine.
I realize that Xsetup is broken, but what I don't understand, is why it's
broken under Debian, and LinuxPPC/YellowDog seem to have gotten around this
problem? Is it due to GPL issues?
Thanks for the help...this might work yet. :)
-Jeremiah Merkl
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