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ANyone know if you can configure Linux to use the jogdial as a 3rd mouse button - don't care about being able to scroll, just need that middle mouse button!!!
When I installed RH 8.0 and then 7.3 (see earlier post!!!) it seemed to think that I had a 3 button PS/2 mouse installed, so thought clicking the jogdail might have worked. Have tried the imps/2 protocol in XF86Config-4, to no avail.... :-(
So first off I was really suprised to see 2 entries. If I change the protocol entry for Mouse0 to "IMPS/2" as you suggested and reboot then the mouse moves really erratically - jumping all over the place!!!
At least for what I know, XF86Config was a configuration file for XFree86 v3, and XF86Config-4 are for XFree86-4.x.x., but if is it working for you, it's a wise option to keep it ...
About your two entries "Mouse0" and "Mouse1" they are usualy used to have 2 mouses at same screen, but, if you want to know what of then your system is using, look at the first section, it will be something like:
Thanks Vladkrack, though in the end the solution was not
editing XF86Config, but enabling a kernel module (sonypi) that
did the trick.
Running RH7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3
First I put the following two lines into /etc/modules.conf
options sonypi minor=61
alias char-major-10-61 sonypi
rebooted
then running lsmod shows "sonypi" in the list of loaded modules
then you need to download sonypid from someplace on the net
(alcove?) I forget where - p.s. various people have hacked
sonypid to make the jogdial do what ever they want it to.
Compile sonypid and run it with sonypid & then you can use the
jogdial as a middle mouse button.
ACPI does not work properly. When I try to configure it in system control center, it says ACPI maybe have start-up, but not work properly.
SuSE8.1 have installed ALSA and OSS together, should I must reinstall by myself?
At least for what I know, XF86Config was a configuration file for XFree86 v3, and XF86Config-4 are for XFree86-4.x.x., but if is it working for you, it's a wise option to keep it ...
When x-server 4.x starts it first look for a XF86Config and if that doesnīt exist it looks for an XF86Config-4 (or the other way round, canīt remember....)
I just found this thread, and I would like to achieve exactly the opposit that you guys achieved. I have a Vaio, and the 2.6.11 kernel. For me, I didnt need to set anything, just load the sonypi module, and scrolling and jogdial press works as a middle mouse button. Now, when I want to use some jogdial-app, like rsjog, or sjog, and when I press the jogdial, the menu pops up, and also it acts as a middle mouse button. So two things at the same time. I think that from 2.6.9 kernel, the middle mouse button and scroll is by default. So now, something is already listening to the jogdial, and when I load the optional application, rsjog, it will also listen to it. So when I press it, it will execute two things. Really annoying. Any ways to disable the default middle mouse clicking from the jogdial?
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