I'm in an "almost there" state with a new G4 which will be the first of a cluster in use at our new music technolgy lab here at the University of Glasgow. I've read my way through the mail list archive, and tried pretty well everything, but can't get the 2 and 3 button mouse emulation to work.
Here's what I've done so far. GPM is running with a "-R" and xfree 3's frame-buffer server picks up mouse movements and button-1 activity fine. The mouse is a USB mouse with an intellimouse (or whatever it's called) protocol attached to the same USB port as the keyboard. This setup worked pretty well straight away and I went on to getting the multi-button emulation sorted out. I can't get /any/ of the methods described to work. I am using Xkbd translation (the no Xkbd translation line is commented out in the XF86Config file). I followed the instructions at http://people.a2000.nl/omoerbe/ to try and get things to work as far as I could, but this involves getting hold of a file from ftp://idd-01.imbc.gr/pub/macintosh_xkb.tar.gz which is no longer there. That said, I couldn't see anything which would stop all the mods suggested on that web page from working. The interesting thing is that I thought mapping a key using xmodmap should work. For example, xmodmap -e 'keysym KP_0 = n' makes the n character appear when you type keypad-0, but xmodmap -e 'keysym KP_0 = Pointer_Button2", whilst producing no errors, gives no dice as an mouse-button replacement. (sorry if I've slightly misspelled some of that command: the mac is at the other end of the office from this aged intel box) I've tried lots of other things (append= in yaboot.conf, messing around as per aforementioned web page, etc, etc) but nothing works. I'm also running gnome and enlightenment, both of which whirr, bump and fizzle along beautifully. Apart from the mouse-button problem. Is there a fix for this, or is it time to buy loads of three-button USB mice (which are bound to cause problems with the Apple side of things: these machines are going to have to be dual boot). I need to get them working by Wednesday, when Linux will be on demonstration to the Great British Public as an open-day event. No pressure 8-) Nick/
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