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SubjectRe: 2.6.0 and mice
I can't get my Microsoft wheel mouse to work left-handed via USB or PS/2 
adaptor.
This is with 2.6.0 and KDE from RH9. I can only manage to get both
buttons to
be seen as right-handed mb3 or "normal" right-handed, i.e. mb1 and mb3.
I do
want to run 2.6.0, but I can't! Any ideas? (of course it all works
fine with 2.4.23).

larry

Norman Diamond wrote:

>Peter Osterlund replied to me:
>
>
>
>>>2. Also in Input device support, there is a section on Mice, PS/2 mouse,
>>>and Synaptics TouchPad. These I compiled in and they don't seem to be
>>>causing any problems. It seems that the Alps TouchPad is being recognized
>>>as an Intelli/Wheel mouse instead of being recognized as a Synaptics
>>>TouchPad, which is unfortunate but not really causing any problems. I've
>>>read that Synaptics is most common in foreign countries but Alps is most
>>>common in Japan.
>>>
>>>
>>The synaptics kernel driver doesn't try to recognize alps touchpads.
>>
>>
>
>I guess that explains why the Synaptics driver didn't cause any problems
>:-)
>
>
>
>>However, in the XFree86 driver
>> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
>>there is a kernel patch (alps.patch) that makes the kernel recognize
>>alps touchpads and generate data compatible with the XFree86 synaptics
>>driver.
>>
>>
>
>Looking at that page, I'll guess that SuSE 8.2's version of XFree86 probably
>already has that patch, because under X the touchpad is performing more than
>half of those operations correctly already.
>
>
>
>>It doesn't work perfectly though, at least not for some hardware. The
>>problem seems to be how to interpret the gesture bit in the alps mouse
>>packets.
>>
>>
>
>That's OK, Alps supplies notebook vendors with drivers for Monopolysoft
>OSes, and it seems that Alps hasn't completely got this working correctly
>either.
>
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