> As you could tell, I wanted the MS optical mouse just for its side buttons.
> And I wanted those just for quake3. From all the responses regarding this
> matter, the side-button functionality under X doesnt seem too promising. So
> I called up a (windows user) friend of mine who has one of these
Arunava Sen wrote:
> Hence, X support for these side-buttons seem out of the
> question.
I thought all buttons after 3 were software dependant anyway, which is
what makes most of them pretty useless.
>
> So what so I do? Slashdot to the rescue!
> They have this cool article about the best damne
Hello,
As you could tell, I wanted the MS optical mouse just for its side buttons.
And I wanted those just for quake3. From all the responses regarding this
matter, the side-button functionality under X doesnt seem too promising. So
I called up a (windows user) friend of mine who has one of these
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>Do you mean that the side buttons are just useless clones of the left
>and right buttons? This is exactly what I was scared of. Thanks for
>responding to my post.
Not afaik. It depends on your xserver. 3.3.6 only supports a maximum
of 5 buttons, thi
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>P.S. Does anyone of know of any Linux mp3's
I find my mp3s play well on most platforms, not just Linux ;)
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>So if you have either the "Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer" or the
>"Microsoft Intellimouse Web" and can confirm side-button
>finctionality it will be much appreciated. (the explorer is the
>fully expensive optical one)
When I was setting mine up,
> Thanks for all the info. Clears up all my questions. I think i'll take a
> risk and see if the side buttons work independently for me in XF4.0.1.
They seem to be clones for me too, in XFree86 4.0.1, but that's probably
more to do with my lack of familiarity with all the new X stuff (and lack
Dean Hamstead wrote:
> X 3.3.6 is max 5 buttons i believe, two of which are consumed by
> mouse scrolling. X4 has better mouse support.
> X apparently only requires three buttons (as in the standard kinda
> thing)
>
> So in X for me, the two side buttons are just clones.
Thanks for all the info.
Im running Dean-Hat(tm) linux
Linux version 2.2.17pre16
i have in my kernel
agpgart
3dfx
i2c (cvs)
lmsensors (cvs)
v3tv (cvs)
alsa 5.9d
i used to have ali-ide and usb but they are now in the 2.2.x kernels
Ive also been meaning to put ext3 in.
X3.3.6 (i like UT, what can i say?)
just get
> Just one more thing usb mouse... how did you set it up? and what
> kernel and distro(if any) are you using?
You're supposed to tell *us* those things! ;)
Kernel: 2.4.0-test9 i686
X: XFree86 4.0.1
Distro: Debian woody
I can't see why this would be different with the backported U
Dean Hamstead wrote:
> The MS Intellimouse is a damned good mouse. Who cares abou their
> software writing skills. They should throw out all that and make
> peripherals. Logitech makes nice mice also, but im in love with
> the IM explorer. Works well in linux, esp. on usb (something
> that window
I have a mouse labelled 'Dexxa'. 5 button + wheel. Looks quite the same as
the MS one but is symmetrical - either right or left handed. Comes with a
flaming tail and about 1/2 the price.
http://www.dexxaweb.com
Doug
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, the gospel according to Dean Hamstead was:
> The MS Intel
The MS Intellimouse is a damned good mouse. Who cares abou their
software writing skills. They should throw out all that and make
peripherals. Logitech makes nice mice also, but im in love with
the IM explorer. Works well in linux, esp. on usb (something
that windows 95 would never do for me). the
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:51:43PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > But do they have flaming bums?
>
> Any Vet will tell you this is a sign of sickness in any animal
>
> {:-)
>
> P.S. Does anyone of know of any Linux mp3's
What's a specifically-Linux mp3?
http://w
Jeff Waugh wrote:
> But do they have flaming bums?
Any Vet will tell you this is a sign of sickness in any animal
{:-)
P.S. Does anyone of know of any Linux mp3's
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> Rather than dealing with the devil another alternative is one of the
> other brands of optical mouse. As they use the same optical sensor
> their performance should be identical (minus the M$ logo :-)
But do they have flaming bums?
Innovation I tell ye.
- Jeff
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On 30 Oct 00, Arunava Sen wrote [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice:
> The only reason I'd buy one of these and not the el-cheapo MS
> wheely is the extra side buttons. I am fairly sure the wheel would
> work using the imps/2 mouse protocol in X. But what i need to know
> is if the extra side butt
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Subject: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X?
> So if you have either the "Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer" o
Hi,
For a while i had the OEM MS wheely mouse. It used the IMPS/2 mouse
protocol and the wheel worked and everything excellent quake3 tool
:). Unfortunately, it died for no apparent reason an I have been using
a $5 serial mouse. But I've been having a look at some of the new MS
mice and they
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