From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Michael Collins Message-ID: <3A831ABE.FBC56B83@austin.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20010208222306.649B519B07@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie questions. Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:40:43 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5fea235c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 That is right. I will try it. That is mentioned in the Linux 3-Button mouse Howto. It also shows how to solder them. Holding Shift doesn't work on the one I tried so far. forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote: > > >> Darn. I have three bum mice. button 2 does not work.I have upgraded > >>the wiki and am rarin to go. Can I use commands and ? Doesn't > >>seem so. Anyway to fix these wayward 3 button serial mice? > > years ago i saw some three-button mice that would only enable the middle button > if the left-hand button (or it might have been the right-hand button) > was held down as the machine (mouse) was powered up. > really! > we exchanged them for some that had switches to select between Mouse Systems > protocol (3 buttons) and PC (Microsoft) protocol (2 buttons). -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral Penguinista Navy International This ain't California http://www.geekaustin.org Ask me about Plan 9 http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/