MacX 3-Button Mouse Patch
06-Jun-99
Stefan Jeglinski
about the patch and where to get it
- the patch facilitates operation of a "MacX" 3-button mouse; an example of such a mouse is the Mouse Systems MacPoint Pro mouse.
- the patch code can be gotten from
http://toocool.calpoly.edu/~dhiltgen/computing/linux.html as a text file.
- for the same patch that will work directly with 2.2.7, click here
- a new mac_keyb.c was released for 2.2.8, but it does not include the MacX mouse support yet. For the patch that will work directly with 2.2.8, click here.
how to apply it
- LinuxPPC
- put the patch file in your /usr/src/linux directory and name it patch-macx-2.2.x
- run patch -p1 < patch-macx-2.2.x from /usr/src/linux
- the result should be
patching file `Documentation/Configure.help'
patching file `arch/ppc/config.in'
patching file `drivers/macintosh/mac_keyb.c'
- define the button mapping in the .xinitrc file by including the line
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 1 2" (for example)
- MkLinux
- not tried, but word is the Generic 07 kernel already has MacX support built in
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