configuring a 3 button mouse.

[Geoffrey]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> I recently upgraded my Mandriva install and now it appears that my 3 button
>> mouse is emulating a 2 button mouse as cut/paste only works when I select
>> buttons 1 and 3, but not with button 2.
>>
>> The middle button is a wheel and scrolling does work with it, which leads to
>> more confusion.
>>
>> This has always 'just worked' so it's been a while since I tried to
>> configure this.  my xorg.conf looks right (to me):
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>    Identifier "Mouse1"
>>    Driver "mouse"
>>    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>>    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>>    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
>>    Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
>>    Option "EmulateWheel"
>>    Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Can you the log so we can see what's going on? My guess is the device
> isn't using the mouse driver like you think it is.

I think you're onto something.  I see this:

(==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
         Using the first mouse device.

I've attached both my xorg.conf and the log for further insights.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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the government from wasting the labors of the people under
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