The scroll wheel works everywhere for me in linux. But I do use imwheel -k
and it is attached as a PS/2.
As for the 2 additional buttons it should be a matter of finding out what
keypresses they send out and entering them in a keybinding somewhere
(Netscape, Opera, etc.).
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
----- Original Message -----
From: Julio Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT!
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > My MS Intellimouse gave up on me. Despite a lot cleaning, etc, the
buttons
> > were getting stuck and causing me to either have to click more than once
to
> > get a click or one click would act as a double click. So with
trepidation I
> > bought a MS optical Intellimouse, worried as to whether it would work in
> > Linux.
> >
> > The 2 buttons and the scroll button worked perfectly in Linux with no
> > changes in my configuration, BUT the scroll button did not work in NT
untill
> > I installed the "special software". I thought that was really funny.
:-))
> >
> > Does anyone know if the additional side buttons (forward and back on the
> > web) also work in linux? I have not yet tried them as I hurried to
share
> > this with the group.
> >
> > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Registered Linux user 183185
>
> I also have an optical mouse and linux usually detects it as a ps2 even
tho' it
> is a usb mouse, anyways, the other two buttons do not work in linux, and
the
> scrolling wheel only works in caldera EDesktop 2.4!
>
>
