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From: R. Timothy Edwards (tim AT stravinsky DOT jhuapl.edu) Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 10:07:10 EDT
Dear Prof. Sharma, > In my case, I did have a three button mouse (a wheel mouse of > unknown origin, actually)- but "Emulate3Buttons" was needlessly enabled > in XF86Config, which led to the problem. This has been fixed now. > However, the mouse is still balking at the next task in the > tutorial - ie pick the colour to fill in the box using the middle button. My experience with "wheel" mice is that while the wheel looks and acts like a button, it does not map to any of the five buttons normally accepted by the X server. But, I just did a search on the web and found some information on configuring wheel mice for X11 (using the XFree86 3.3.2 (or newer) server), at the following website (type "linux wheel mouse driver" into any search engine, in this case Lycos): http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ It seems that XFree86 3.3.2 has reasonably good support for wheel mice, and only requires the correct, if somewhat obscure, settings in the XF86Config file. From what I understand from reading the page, your wheel mouse of "unknown origin" is likely to work, being from a 3rd-party vendor (not MicroSoft) and therefore forced to comply with standards. Regards, Tim
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