xfree86 3.3.2 and later do support this, you need to use the imps2 mouse
type rather then ps2. There is a program called imwheel that also can make
use of the wheel portion.
David Lang
"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
happy."
- -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:04:14 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.demon.co.uk>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Microsoft mouse, the "sort_of middle" button support?
>
> Hello Brave and Mighty Men of Linux,
>
> Is anyone working on supporting the Microsoft-specific beasts with the
> little button in between which does the scrolling in Microsoft-specific
> attempts to write an OS? I thought it could be made to work like a third
> button provided the protocol is open and available.
>
> I am not suggesting at all to write the native kernel and XFree support for it
> (nothing from Microsoft will deserve that, until the day they repent and do
> what they were created to do - write good GUI applications for Linux), but
> merely an emulation of standard 2-button PS/2 /dev/psaux.
>
> Regards,
> Tigran A. Aivazian, http://www.aivazian.demon.co.uk/
>
>
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