Re: serial mouse on older pmac?

[<furball@space.ch>]

Hej Peter,

> I've successfully done this in the past. XFree86 should work fine if you tell
> it to use a serial mouse. You may have to construct a special adapter for 
> the serial port--IIRC, it's slightly different from a regular RS422-232
> adapter.
thanks for all the info and the heads-up. I choose to go the easy
way first and simply used a modem connector cable (those connecting
an apple serial port to any PC modem) and organized some old serial
mouse.

I was nearly successful, then... but: mouse button press is only 
detected when moving the mouse at the same time. also, under X, it 
will only take notice of the left button (middle and right buttons
are ignored, even when vigorously moving the mouse :) )

I wonder if this could be a result of the not-entirely-correct
pin setup as you and the others described. Or: Did that problem
also happen to you?

thanks a lot, bye
Philipp Kaeser