Re: Mouse with many buttons (e.g. 7)

"Zephaniah E. Hull" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:46:48PM +0100, Christian Mayer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after searching the web and still failing to install my mouse with 7
> > buttons (Intelli Mouse Optical) I hope to get some answers here.
> >   Did I configure something wrong?
> >   Or is this a limitation in the X protocol / the X server / ... ?
> >
> > If it's the later: when is the necessary support planned?
> 
> It is actually not a limit of any of those, it is a limit of the
> available PS/2 protocols.
> 
> The good news is that this is much less of an issue if you use it as a
> USB device, 

Good news is that I've got it installed via the USB port.
Bad news: I thoght that it works under Windos on the PS/2 as well...

> the bad news is that I really need to kick myself to get the
> kernel issues worked out so I can get back to writing the evdev input
> driver for X.
> 
> Could you do me a favor and kick me next monday if I have not posted
> anything about it by then?

You can count on it :)

CU,
Christian

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