Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:14:52 +0930 From: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samsung Cordless Mouse Message-ID: <20040817121452.1b54eb2f@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In the immortal words of Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>... > More by accident than by design, I find myself the owner of a Samsung > PS/2 Cordless Mouse. To make identification easier, it doesn't have a > model number, so I assume it's the only one they made. I've come across one of these myself recently, interesting, but practically useless. > This mouse has five buttons: the normal three on top, and one on each > side. I can't find a way to get the side buttons to work, and looking > on the web hasn't shown anything of interest. There are several models and manufacturers of this kind of rodent. You might want to experiment with it in X (man xev is a good place to start), but a simple solution is to see what it's detected as when the system boots up. > I don't suppose anybody knows this mouse, though I'd be interested in > hearing if somebody has. My real question is: how can I enable the > side buttons? There's obviously some kind of initialization sequence > that is performed by the Microsoft drivers included with the mouse, > but how do I find out what they do? Is there some utility that runs > under Microsoft and snoops what's going on on the PS/2 port? I know > of something similar for USB, but so far I've drawn a blank for PS/2. The buttons are probably already enabled, but you might need to mess with some X resources to make them do anything useful. Also, try something like Option "Buttons" "5" int the /etc/X11/XF86Config file > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original > recipients. For more information, see > http://www.lemis.com/questions.html I'd like to but I don't have control over my upstream providers DNS or mail settings so your mail server rejects anything I send and there's not a lot I can do about it. Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479
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