From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 10:22:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04743 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04329 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:21:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16536; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steven Berson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Bob Lindell Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 2 button mouse with scroll button In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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