From: Tony Nugent (Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au)
Date: Sun 13 Dec 1998 - 11:17:28 IST
On Sat Dec 12 1998 at 09:46, John Anderson wrote: > I am a RH 5.1 user and I cannot get my IntelliMouse to work in quake or > anything else under svgalib. I went to the RH 5.2 downloads section on > > ftp.redhat.com, and snagged svgalib-1.3.0-2.i386.rpm (because the > version that comes with RH 5.1 doesn't support the IntelliMouse) and rpm > > -Uhv'ed it, then I edited /etc/vga/libvga.config. I changed the mouse > variable to look like 'mouse IntelliMouse' like the comments above said > to do (and my mouse is serial). I then started quake, and the mouse > doesn't work at all.. I am using the glibc2 version of quakeworld, so I > > don't think that is the problem since the svgalib rpm would be glibc2 > (wouldn't it?). I am totally dumbfounded. > > If you could help me it would be awesome, Check it out: Colas Nahaboo X mouse wheel scroll page: http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ In a nutshell, get svga (via /etc/vga/libvga.config) to use a MouseSystems mouse type (yep, that's right) on /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device, and have gpm run in "repeater" mode (ie, use "-R" when it starts up). On a RH box, add this to /etc/sysconfig/mouse - you can also get X to use it like that two. I have it working here like that for things like Quake... Cheers Tony
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