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From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com>
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Subject: FW: Sun mice (fwd)
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> <refraining from laughter j/k>
>
> You mean a mouse with a ball as opposed to an optical mouse?
> - then the earliest? and the latest of the sparc mice are non-optical and
> can be found from most workstation providers as well as ebay. I may even
> have a spare one around (I prefer the optical mouse).
> If you mean the scroll controlling wheel, I have yet to see one
> myself.  However I know belkin? and some other KVM switch makers have
> sparc adapters for there KVM switches, you can try that (Expensive to
> just test imho) If that does work using a normal PS2 type mouse with scroll
> wheel, just have to configure the X on the sun box to utilize the wheel,
> assuming of course the KVM doesn't have to parse that info out for compat
> or something.
>
> Hope it helps a little,
> -Kevin

i have one of those Belkin things but i don't have a PS/2 keyboard.  i'll
grab a keyboard from work on monday and try it out on my SS-5 and post the
results here.  i'll do what i can to see if i can get the wheel working, 
rxvt has built in support for the wheel, but i had to put an option into
the XF86Config file, but i don't know if i'll be able to get OpenWin to work
with it.  i would assume it should be possible since we have a sun ultra clone
at work that has ps/2 connectors on it, but i never plugged a mouse with a
wheel into it.

hmm, i'll let you all know monday night after i get home from work.

-brian


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