[OT] mouse question

2008-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a 2 wheel 5 button A4Tech optical mouse. I have come to depend upon that 2nd wheel a lot for back-fore a page. But I find that NewEgg has only one 2 wheel mouse now. How do you people go back-fore with your mouse? Tilt wheel? Button? Clicking the mouse on the arrows? Hugo -- To

Re: mouse question

2003-03-29 Thread Paul Scott
Richard Kimber wrote: Which parameter(s), and where, do I need to change in order to have the mouse be not so fast at selecting text? I'm not sure that any timing change will fix this. Let's see if we get any other opinions. My problem is that, when editing, if I try to place the cursor in a

mouse question

2003-03-16 Thread Richard Kimber
Which parameter(s), and where, do I need to change in order to have the mouse be not so fast at selecting text? My problem is that, when editing, if I try to place the cursor in a particular position by clicking, and then move the mouse out of the way in order to have an unobstructed view of the t

Re: newby --flaky mouse question

2002-04-21 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:21, Travis Crump wrote: Hi I have also experienced some problem with mouse driver from time to time, an the problem her was gpm mouse driver. I solved the problem with removing gpm. Try dpkg -P gpm /ernst > I had this problem once and finally tracked it down to using the

Re: newby --flaky mouse question

2002-04-21 Thread Travis Crump
I had this problem once and finally tracked it down to using the wrong Protocol. Try switching the protocol to something else like ExplorerPS/2 or something else. William Binkley wrote: I'm a debian newbie, with a seriously jumpy mouse pointer. I installed the isolinux woody mini-CD then used

Re: newby --flaky mouse question

2002-04-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"William" == William Binkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> I'm a debian newbie, with a seriously jumpy mouse William> pointer. I installed the isolinux woody mini-CD then used William> dselect and apt-get to finish installing X and gnome and William> enlightenment. There

Re: newby --flaky mouse question

2002-04-20 Thread David Smead
Bill, ps ax |grep gpm will tell you the PID of the gpm driver. kill it. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, William Binkley wrote: > I'm a debian newbie, with a seriously jumpy mouse pointer. I installed the > isolinux woody mini-CD then used dselect and

newby --flaky mouse question

2002-04-20 Thread William Binkley
I'm a debian newbie, with a seriously jumpy mouse pointer. I installed the isolinux woody mini-CD then used dselect and apt-get to finish installing X and gnome and enlightenment. There was plenty of opportunity for misconfiguration... Now (in gnome) the mouse pointer jumps and skitters around

Re: many-button mouse question

2002-03-17 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > I really hate to bring this age-old question up again ("how do you > activate the wheel on a mouse"), and I have checked the archives on this > and tried most things I can think of, but can't get it. Here's the deal: Figures. kill gpm, set to /dev/p

Re: many-button mouse question

2002-03-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
does this help: http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/

Re: many-button mouse question

2002-03-17 Thread Simon Hepburn
What happens if you comment out Emulate3buttons ? Why do you need emulation when you have the real thing ? Jeff Maxson wrote: > I really hate to bring this age-old question up again ("how do you > activate the wheel on a mouse"), and I have checked the archives on this > and tried most things I

many-button mouse question

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Maxson
I really hate to bring this age-old question up again ("how do you activate the wheel on a mouse"), and I have checked the archives on this and tried most things I can think of, but can't get it. Here's the deal: I have (what it says is) an IBM Model MO02W mouse. There are the normal buttons (l

Re: newbie mouse question

2001-12-16 Thread fallenlordx
Paul Scott wrote: >What docs tell me how to cut and paste, etc. with the mouse and keyboard >when in xterm and in a virtual terminal? Try configuring gpm properly. There was a previous thread regarding this which you can track. Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.co

Re: newbie mouse question

2001-12-16 Thread Paul Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, cut and paste on console only is started if you installed the gpm-package. For further information see "man gpm" and main docs in /usr/share/docs. Oliver Thanks I had looked through man gpm but missed the part I was looking for. This list is great! Paul

Re: newbie mouse question

2001-12-16 Thread Olifuc
Hi, cut and paste on console only is started if you installed the gpm-package. For further information see "man gpm" and main docs in /usr/share/docs. Oliver

newbie mouse question

2001-12-16 Thread Paul Scott
What docs tell me how to cut and paste, etc. with the mouse and keyboard when in xterm and in a virtual terminal? TIA, Paul Scott

Re: mouse question

2000-12-29 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On December 29, 2000 07:57 pm, Cam wrote: > Hello, > > I recently bought a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Wheel mouse and I am > unable to get the wheel to work at all. Here is what I have in my > XF86Config-4 file for my mouse: I haven't tried this on my Debian machine, but here is what Mandrake di

mouse question

2000-12-29 Thread Cam
Hello, I recently bought a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Wheel mouse and I am unable to get the wheel to work at all. Here is what I have in my XF86Config-4 file for my mouse: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Imps/2"

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Ron Stordahl wrote: > Of the choices these 2 make sense: > > 4 PS/2 Mouse > 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse > > Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be > selecting a serial port rather than a PS/2 port? Try installing the PS/2 mouse. Then manually edit /etc/X11/

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread kmself
returns a link title "which device for PS/2 mouse" as its fourth result. Google and the Linux HOWTOs are your friends (and who said geeks don't have friends ). > ron > > > ----- Original Message - > From: > To: "Debian User List" > Sent: Friday,

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread Didi Damian
I used to have a PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse and it never work with the Intellimouse protocol, only PS/2. Of course, YMMV. * kmself@ix.netcom.com [28-04-2000 04:37 PM -0700] > The PS/2 setting should work with both types. An IntelliMouse will be > somewhat more functional if used with teh Inte

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-28 Thread kmself
Which X config section? There are a number of different utilities, among them xconfigurator (command line), XF86Setup (graphical), and others. Don't sweat it, you can always change the setting later. If you've got a mouse with a small, round, 9-pin connector, you've got a PS/2 mouse. If it's go

Simple mouse question....

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am installing potato and am in the X configuration section where I am asked to specify a mouse protocol type. Of the choices these 2 make sense: 4 PS/2 Mouse 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be selecting a serial port rather

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > > It claims that /dev/psaux is not a >> directory (which I agree with :) ). Sorry I didn't mention it >> > [Person, Roderick] > This sound like the you need to make the device, although I have to >say I never had this proble

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
> It claims that /dev/psaux is not a > directory (which I agree with :) ). Sorry I didn't mention it > [Person, Roderick] This sound like the you need to make the device, although I have to say I never had this problem, with a mouse of having to make the device. I'

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: >I have to say that using the gpm autodetect never worked for me. > >Just type in the mouse type and info yourself Just use /dev/psaux for the >mouse type. I did that, actually, with no luck. It claims that /dev/psaux is not a directory (which I agre

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
Original Message- > From: Michael Stenner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 10:11 AM > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: silly mouse question > > At least I hope it's silly > > Installing 2.1_r0 and I have a PS/2 mouse (says so on th

silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Michael Stenner
At least I hope it's silly Installing 2.1_r0 and I have a PS/2 mouse (says so on the mouse) plugged onto the PS/2 port on the box. Problem is, neither gpm nor X seem to be happy with it (i.e. see it at all) gpm's "autodetect" promptly rules out ALL possibilities claiming they have a different "r

Re: Mouse Question

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey I was wondering if there was a way to get my system to auto detect my > mouse so I know who to use while installing X > > Does anyone know if there is a program out there that does that Install gpm and run gpmconfig. I prefer the trial and error

Mouse Question

1998-12-06 Thread WuArMy490
Hey I was wondering if there was a way to get my system to auto detect my mouse so I know who to use while installing X Does anyone know if there is a program out there that does that thanks

Re: Sound card question, mouse question

1998-09-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
To add to what stephen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote: > > I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and > > isapnp. > > > > pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) > > isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf > > setse

Re: Sound card question, mouse question

1998-09-01 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote: > I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and > isapnp. > > pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) > isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf > setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550 > > Everything works great.

[Fwd: Sound card question, mouse question] Try Two

1998-09-01 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
I'll try sending this again since I didn't get a response. I've been having trouble with mail also but that is unrelated. If there was responses I'm terribly sorry for wasting your time but if it's not too much trouble can you forward them to my work address ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )? I'm positive that

Sound card question, mouse question

1998-08-29 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and isapnp. pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550 Everything works great. My question is, pnpdump also listed my sound card. When I

Re: PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-30 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > I have a new Logitech marble trackball with PS/2 connector. I would > like to replace my serial port mouse on my Debian Linux machine. I > have a PS/2-6 pin - 2 - serial-9 pin mouse adapter from a local > computer store. However, simply plugging t

Re: PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
"James D. Freels" wrote: > >Debian mouse experts: > >I have a new Logitech marble trackball with PS/2 connector. I would >like to replace my serial port mouse on my Debian Linux machine. I >have a PS/2-6 pin - 2 - serial-9 pin mouse adapter from a local >computer store. However, si

PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-29 Thread James D. Freels
Debian mouse experts: I have a new Logitech marble trackball with PS/2 connector. I would like to replace my serial port mouse on my Debian Linux machine. I have a PS/2-6 pin - 2 - serial-9 pin mouse adapter from a local computer store. However, simply plugging that in with the PS/2 mouse did

YA PS2 Mouse question

1997-09-28 Thread Dan Hugo
I just read through all of the Mouse-related mail I have saved up, and I did not see an answer to this, though I did see one related comment. I am using AcceleratedX and attempting to use a MouseSystems optical mouse. The mouse has a serial connector and a PS/2 adaptor (which was given the thumbs