From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 02:45:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7364316A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.visp.com.au (gw.visp.com.au [202.6.158.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6923143D45 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:45:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from bofh.spyderweb.com.au (202-6-150-37.ip.visp.com.au [202.6.150.37] (may be forged)) by gw.visp.com.au (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i7H2jNm2034345 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:15:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from spyderweb.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1])i7H2iq9r072492 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:14:53 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:14:52 +0930 From: Tim Aslat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040817121452.1b54eb2f@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040817022926.GK81257@wantadilla.lemis.com> Organization: Spyderweb Consulting X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Samsung Cordless Mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:45:26 -0000 In the immortal words of Greg 'groggy' Lehey ... > 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 Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479