RE: Microsoft mouse in X11
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote:
> Using the XF86Setup I have choosed the MouseSystem mouse with ClearDTR. This
> way my mouse works very well and I can use all the 3 buttons of it.
If you buy a cheap Logitech or Genius mouse, those are only slightly more
expensive than the bottm=om-line noname rodents, you'll probably have no
problems to get the 3rd button to work by default. Maybe it is the
ClearDTR directive that fscks up gpm. If you can only find the noname
mice, there is a way with many of those to make them talk mousesystems
instead of microsoft. It involves soldering one of the pins of the ic
inside the mouse to 0V or +5V (I forget which one exactly.) There used to
be a 3-button mouse mini-HOWTO that describes this.
> And one tip from me, too:
> use
>
> $ startx -- -bpp 16
>
> to start to X in 16 bit mode (or with -bpp 24, for true color).
Or add "DefaultDepth 16" to /etc/XF86Config
Cheers,
Joost
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