From: bob@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Bob Green) Subject: Re: DEXXA mouse with X11 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 07:59:27 GMT
In article <2473@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>, duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Duty Programmer) writes:
|>
|> I have a Genius mouse which can be used in Microsoft or Mousesystems mode.
|> Initially, neither would work. Then the "stty -istrip" issue came about, but I
|> founbd that my "stty" program wouldn't work (it was the MCC distribution one).
|> Using Krishna's program that grabs the serial port and does this, I find that my
|> mouse works just fine in MouseSystems mode, but - like you say - jumps all over
|> the place in Microsoft mode. I presume (due to the lack of complaints) that 'true'
|> Microsoft mice do not have this problem...
|>
|> rab
|> --
I have a Genius mouse working happilly with X. Its a GM6 model. The trick is:
hold down the left button when power is applied. This switches it to Microsoft
emulation; at least it does for me ;-) I'm posting 'cos there are probably other
Genius mouse owners out there...
Hope this helps
-Bob
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