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The 3 Button Serial Mouse mini-HOWTO

Geoff Short, geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk

v1.33, 31 May 1998


How to get a 3 button serial mouse working properly under Linux.

1. Disclaimer

2. Introduction

3. Serial Ports

4. Switched Mice

5. Normal Mice

6. Switching a Mouse to 3-Button Mode

7. Wheeled mice

8. Using gpm to Switch Mouse Modes

9. Using two mice

10. XF86Config and Xconfig file examples

11. Cables, extensions and adaptors

12. Miscellaneous Problems and Setups

13. Models Tested

14. Further Information

15. Mouse Tail


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