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- From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
- Subject: Re: MouseSystems bus mouse ("WhiteMouse") support?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.133303@tiger1.prime.com>
- Sender: usenet@primerd.prime.com (Usenet)
- Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
- References: <3=ln+=.fpolizo@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:33:03 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <3=ln+=.fpolizo@netcom.com>, fpolizo@netcom.com (Fred Polizo) writes:
- > Anyone know of a linux mouse driver for a MouseSystems "WhiteMouse" bus mouse?
- >
- > I've tried the Microsoft and Logitech drivers, but neither works for me (on
- > 0.97pl2). I tried changing the port addresses and that got the kernel to
- > recognize the mouse at boot up. However, when I try the x11 mouse test
- > program, it fails to see any mouse clicks or mouse movements. I put a
- > printk() in mouse_interrupt() and it never gets called, but I'm not sure
- > why. Any ideas?
-
- Mouse Systems mice are not compatible with Microsoft mice. Microsoft mice
- only use two buttons, Mouse systems use three. Besides that, I believe they
- send different serial data (or send it at different baud rates?) for movement
- and button presses. I thought that Logitech had a Mouse Systems compatible
- mode for their mice, but perhaps the software you have us using Microsoft
- compatible mode. I recently bought a mouse for a friend that would run as
- either Microsoft or Mouse Systems compatible. It had a switch on the bottom
- to configure it either way. You have to install different software depending
- on how you want to set the switch. I used to have an old GENIUS mouse which
- was Mouse Systems compatible by default, but if you held down the left mouse
- button when you powered it on, it would instead be Microsoft compatible.
- (GENUIS has since added a switch on the back of that mouse to switch between
- what they called 2 button mode and three button mode.)
-
- Take a good look at your mouse's "bus card". If it is just a serial card
- (using either a standard or non-standard com port address or IRQ line)
- you may be able to use setserial to configure your kernel to talk with
- it like any other serial mouse. (I have a PC-mouse-II at home and a PC-mouse-III
- at work, which are both "bus" mice, but the bus card is just a serial port.
- I configured it to use non-standard IO addresses and IRQ lines so as to not
- lose any of my 4 standard "COM" ports.)
-
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