From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 04:21:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23871 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA23827 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 04:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id GAA00369; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 06:07:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980611060715.49263@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 06:07:15 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Dillon , "Paul T. Root" Cc: adrian@virginia.edu, jedi@best.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 button logitech mouse References: <199806060042.TAA26648@horton.iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Dillon on Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:55:07PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 June 1998 at 23:55:07 -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > >> In a previous message, Adrian Filipi-Martin said: >>> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Martel wrote: >>> >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> I searched the mailing list archive but could not find anything >>>> on the 4 button MouseMan. >>>> >>>> Does FreeBSD support all 4 buttons? >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> -Jay >>> >>> The syscons driver probably doesn't kow about the fourth button, >>> but X windows certainly does. I believe X supports pointing devices with >>> upto 5 buttons. Check the X11 documentatin for details. I haven't seen >>> anything with more than 3 buttons in ages. >>> >>> BTW, what model is this? I might just get one? It's not the 3 >>> button plus a scrolling wheel, is it? >> >> I believe he's talking about the Logitec TrackMan Marble FX. I wanted one >> but my purchesing guy got the regular Marble. Which is nice too. >> > > I just bought one of the TrackMan Marble FXs, and X definately recognises > the fourth button. Haven't found much of a use for it yet, but it does DO > something at least. This is also the best trackball I've ever laid my > hands on (literally). :-) How does it recognize it? As button 4? Or as something else? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message