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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:21:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Steven Berson <berson@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Bob Lindell <lindell@ISI.EDU>
Subject:   Re: Gateway 2000 2 button mouse with scroll button
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127102027.16462G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.980122151810.6152j-100000@roo.isi.edu>

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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Steven Berson wrote:

> I have a Gateway 2000 machine running FreeBSD 2.2.2.  The mouse is a two
> button mouse with a scroll button that supposedly scrolls the window on
> Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Is there a way to get the scroll button to
> act as a normal third mouse button on FreeBSD?

Some support was brought into -stable from -current a few days ago that at
least recognizes the wheel; whether you can teach XFree86 or moused to use
the wheel as a third button is another matter.  I suppose it's possible
though.
 
Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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