Info 3-button mouse utilities for PowerPC Linux


Here you will find utilities for using the Info Products programmable 3-button ADB mouse (model IPM2) and trackball in LinuxPPC for PowerMacintosh with the Xpmac X-Windows server. Available in two flavors:

(1) User-level program
reprograms the info-mouse by writing to /dev/adb. Should work with all kernel versions.

(2) Kernel patch
a patch to the monolithic 2.1.24 kernel to initialize the info-mouse at boot time. This kernel is outdated, based on an April 9, 1998 kernel.

The Info mouse/trackball normally emulates a mouse-click from its left button and a special function (keyboard-click or mouse click-lock) from its middle and right buttons. These utilities reprogram the mouse/trackball to emit particular keycodes from the middle and right buttons. The X-Windows server "Xpmac" can be made to interpret these keycodes as mouse-button clicks using the -middlekey and -rightkey options. For example, to use keycodes 102 and 103, run the infomouse app as: 
infomouse -m 102 -r 103
then launch X-Windows as: 
startx -- -nooptionmouse -middlekey 102 -rightkey 103
The kernel patch is presently hard-coded to use keycodes 102 and 103.

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Maintained by: Eylon Caspi, eylon@cs.berkeley.edu
Last updated: March 1, 1999