Logan,
Here is the pointer section from my XF86Config. I have a Logitech
optical wheel, should work fine for ya. I'm running SuSE (pretty much
out of necessity...long story) but I had to recompile XFREE from source
because the wonderful people at SuSE forgot to include GLX support --
which meant no Quake3.
What version of X are you using? Looking at my config now, it looks
like you might have an older (3.x or early 4.x) version. If so, the
speed increase is well worth the upgrade to 4.2
Hope this helps,
Marc
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:02, Logan wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I just switched from SuSE to Debian stable on my home box. I have
> a mouse problem driving me crazy. GPM works perfectly and my middle
> button allows me to paste normally in the console. I installed X11 and
> no matter what configuration I use in my "Pointer" Section of
> XF86Config, my mouse (a Logitech 3 button) uses "emulate 3 buttons" or,
> otherwise, any other option makes my pointer just go insane. The only
> useable configuration for me in XF86Config is as follows:
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Microsoft"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> Emulate3Buttons
> EndSection
>
> If I turn off the Emulate3Buttons, I have an excellent two button
> mouse which actually has three! Heh. And no more paste ability.
> Can someone tell me or point me to a way to fix this? Searching
> Google with "3 button mouse Linux Debian" (and other variations of the
> aforementioned search) yield a multitude of useless answers.
> Due to a lack of finger coordination and just because I prefer to
> click the middle button than two simultaneously, any help will be
> appreciated. Other details, but I don't think they will matter are:
>
> I am using Sawfish with Gnome. But this shouldn't affect my pointer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Logan
>
> P.S. Another note, after using almost every other distro of Linux,
> since 1995, I have to quote the movie, "Hellraiser II," in regard to
> trying out Debian, for which I had some kind of bizarre, primal fear of
> switching to after reading too many articles mentioning how difficult
> Debian is to install...which only takes about two hours (combining
> download [I think actually took an actual 18 minutes] and reading
> dselect for the first time [I read almost all of the packages
> available]) with a cable modem...anyway, the quote from the movie, "I
> cannot believe I hesitated..." I wasted more time trying to figure out
> the above mouse problem than installing!
>
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