From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 18 14:40:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19989 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [206.224.65.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA19972; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA04529; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:40:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199607182140.QAA04529@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Re: 3-button mice on laptops (was Re: FreeBSD keyboard) To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:40:05 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org, chat@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607182035.WAA17643@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Jul 18, 96 10:35:28 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Jeffrey Hsu: > > mouse, but they're uniformly 2-button, except for RDI's sparc laptop. > > Are there any pc notebooks which have an option for 3-button built-in > > mice? > > Yes, Tadpole's P1000 which is a P100. DON'T BUY IT ! It has the most > horrible PCI implementation i've ever seen (ask Stephan Esser) and the > worst for a laptop: it has NO save and resume. You have to shut it down > each time. > > I've never seen such an unusable machine. My Dell Latitude XPi-P120ST has only two buttons, but they are both large and completely surround the track ball, making pressing both of them to emulate the center button reasonably easy. -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX