[H-GEN] XF86 and microsoft mouse

[Simon Raboczi]

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Michael Dooley wrote:
 
>> My mouse is a microsoft intellimouse 1.1A serial compatible mouse.  Any
>> ideas how I configure it [for X] ?
 
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Mark Suter wrote:

> I am not entirely sure; but, I believe that the `intellimouse' is not
> a Microsoft protocol mouse.  I think that M$ has done their usual
> trick and changed the `standard'.  Note that the mouse is ``serial
> compatible'' and not ``Microsoft compatible'' --- this refers to its
> conformity with the RS232 standard.
> 
> My short answer - X needs to specifically support the `intellimouse'.

By coincidence I've just finished writing an X11 driver module for another
weird unsupported serial pointing device, so if you're up for a bit of
coding and can find out what the intellimouse's protocol is, I could help
you with the X server side of things.  I'd offer to write it myself, but I
don't have an intellimouse to experiment with.  :)
								-- Sebkha
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