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The 3 Button Serial Mouse mini-HOWTO Geoff Short, geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk
v1.33, 31 May 1998
How to get a 3 button serial mouse working properly under Linux.
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Table of Contents
1. Disclaimer
2. Introduction
3. Serial Ports
4. Switched Mice
5. Normal Mice
6. Switching a Mouse to 3-Button Mode
7. Wheeled mice
8. Using gpm to Switch Mouse Modes
9. Using two mice
10. XF86Config and Xconfig file examples
11. Cables, extensions and adaptors
12. Miscellaneous Problems and Setups
13. Models Tested
14. Further Information
15. Mouse Tail
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1. Disclaimer
The following document is offered in good faith as comprising only safe programming and procedures. No responsibility is accepted by the author for any loss or damage caused in any way to any person or equipment, as a direct or indirect consequence of following these instructions.
2. Introduction
The most recent version of this document can always be found at http://kipper.york.ac.uk/mouse.html
There is a Japanese translation at http://jf.gee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/JF/JF- ftp/euc/3-Button-Mouse.euc; and a French one at http://www.freenix.fr/linux/HOWTO/mini/3-Button-Mouse.html. Other translations may be available - check your local LDP mirrors.
Most X applications are written with the assumption that the user will be working with a 3 button mouse. Serial mice are commonly used on computers and are cheap to buy. Many of these mice have 3 buttons and claim to use the Microsoft protocol, whic