[ILUG] Intellimouse and Inspiron

[Niall O Broin]

I have a Dell Inspiron which has a touchpad AND a stick pointer and 4
buttons (2 each) to go with them. Despite this surfeit of buttons, however,
I still have to have Emulate 3 Buttons in my X config because the psaux
driver can't distinguish between the two sets of butons. As it's a notebook,
I live with it.

However, I'd been meaning to pick up a three button mouse and today I did
just that (though in fairness, its legitimate owner does know I picked it
up - I don't know if he thought I put it back down though.) so now I have a
MS Intellimouse. Interestingly, it just plugs in and goes, so know with the
mouse I have three independent ways of moving the mouse pointer, not to
mention various kinds of keyboard mouse movement. My question, however, is
if it's possible to configure X in such a way that the Intellimouse works
(for the best value of work - i.e. recognises a press of the wheel as a
third mouse button, and the wheel does something useful) when it's plugged
in, but if it's not there, the box just reverts to using either stick or pad
and Emulate 3 Buttons. At the moment, in the plug in and go situation, it
just appears to be a two button mouse.



Yours intelliMOUSEgently,


Niall