Re: It's ALIVE!!!!

[Gregory Seidman <gss+debian@cs.brown.edu>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:21:47PM -0600, dotto@uchicago.edu wrote:
} Hello again all. I'm currently wiritng this from Konqueror. This is several 
} steps further than I've ever gotten in the Debian install. Now I have a few 
} small things to take care of. 
}  
} 1. External Mouse: I have a Microsoft basic optical mouse with a scroll wheel 
} on my Tibook. How do I manipulate XF86Config to recognize this, and how do I 
} make it swappable with the trackpad. I also have a suspicion that the scroll 
} wheel could possibly act as a third button as well, since there is an audible 
} click when I press down on it. 

I prefer to use gpm to mediate between mouse devices and X, but YMMV.
I'm not sure how the trackpad is available, but the external mouse
should be available from /dev/input/mice. Use gpmconfig (once you've
installed gpm, if you haven't) to configure configure gpm to use
/dev/input/mice for input and repeating. The repeat protocol should be
ms3, and probably the input protocol as well. This may configure it for
the trackpad as well, but I'm not that familiar with Mac laptop
hardware.

In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 you should use the following for your mouse (change
the Identifier as appropriate):

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

This should get the scrollwheel recognized as both the middle button and
as the wheel itself.

} 2. Sound: how do I get the sound running on this thing? 

What kernel are you using?

} Thanks all. 
} Derek 
--Greg