Re: Power Management et. al.

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:33:19AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > > I have this in a startup script to get the middle button on F11 and the
> > > right one on F12 :
> > >
> > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation
> > > echo 87 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode
> > > echo 88 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode
> 
> rather then adding a custom boot script its simpler to just add these
> to /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1
> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87
> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88
> 
> make sure you have an extra empty line at the end of /etc/sysctl.conf
> so it doesn't bitch.

Cool, thanks. But looking at sysctl.conf(5) I think it should be
dev.mac_hid.*, shouldn't it?

Dunno why I though /etc/sysctl.conf was a RedHatism...


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