I've successfully done this in the past. XFree86 should work fine if you tell it to use a serial mouse. You may have to construct a special adapter for the serial port--IIRC, it's slightly different from a regular RS422-232 adapter.
http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~chuck/smd.html has some information. Since the file wtih the readme is in a MacOS-specific format, I copied out the pinout for you: Macintosh 8 minidin Pin # Macintosh Description RS232 Name Mouse db9 Pin # Mouse db25 Pin # 1 Handshake Out RTS 7 4 1 Handshake Out DTR 4 20 2 Handshake In CTS 8 5 3 Transmit Data TD 3 2 4 Ground GND 5 7 5 Receive Data - RD 2 3 8 Receive Data + GND 5 7 Cheers, --Peter On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:39:03AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hej, > > I'm having debian 2.2r3 installed on a powerbook 2400c, > featuring a lot of applications like gimp and xfig... > however, it's quite a mess to use these applications > since they heavily depend on three-button-mice configurations. > > The solution of having the 2nd and 3rd button emulated > by keyboard is not very practical; thus I was wondering > if it is possible to have a PC serial mouse attached to > the laptops serial port and configure it as on a PC. > > Does anyone ever have tried this? Does anyone know if > the mouse requires a PC serial port (rs232) or if it > works on macs (rs???) as well? are the drivers for > gpm and (most importantly) X compiled-in (or left out > due to "improbable config")? > > thanks a lot, bye > Philipp Kaeser / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
