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Is Microsoft Intellimouse or other scrolling mice supported?

April 26, 2017intellimouse mice Microsoft scrolling supported

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Is Microsoft Intellimouse or other scrolling mice supported?

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Partly (with native XSun). Configure it as a 3-button PS/2 mouse. The wheel won’t scroll anything, but pressing the wheel down is the same as pressing the middle button. The same holds true for Logitech’s MouseMan Wheel mice. XFree86 and Xi Graphics X Windows graphics card server software do support wheel mice. Wheel events can also be obtained with Xsun by replacing the Xsun mouse module and Solaris mouse driver with one of the ones from: http://www.tools.de/solaris/ps2wheel/ for PS/2 and http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/usb-usbsm.html for USB mice. [Thanks to Alan Orndorff and Alan Coopersmith] _________________________________________________________________ (4.

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Partly (with native XSun). Configure it as a 3-button PS/2 mouse. The wheel won’t scroll anything, but pressing the wheel down is the same as pressing the middle button. The same holds true for Logitech’s MouseMan Wheel mice. XFree86 and Xi Graphics X Windows graphics card server software do support wheel mice. Wheel events can also be obtained with Xsun by replacing the Xsun mouse module and Solaris mouse driver with one of the ones from: http://www.tools.de/solaris/ps2wheel/ for PS/2 and http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/usb-usbsm.html for USB mice. [Thanks to Alan Orndorff and Alan Coopersmith] _________________________________________________________________ (4.16) What’s difference between Solaris x86 Server and Solaris x86 Desktop? There is absolutely no difference, other than what you are licensed to do with it. You get exactly the same software with the two products. (This is not the case with Sparc server, where the server product contains more CDs with some additional s

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| |Partly (with native XSun). Configure it as a 3-button PS/2 mouse. The |wheel won’t scroll anything, but pressing the wheel down is the same |as pressing the middle button. The same holds true for Logitech’s |MouseMan Wheel mice. Wheel events can be obtained with Xsun by replacing the Xsun mouse module and Solaris mouse driver with one of the ones from: PS/2: http://www.tools.de/solaris/ps2wheel/ USB: http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/usb-usbsm.

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Partly (with native XSun). Configure it as a 3-button PS/2 mouse. The wheel won’t scroll anything, but pressing the wheel down is the same as pressing the middle button. The same holds true for Logitech’s MouseMan Wheel mice. Update: I understand the new version 1.2 of Intellimouse does not work with Solaris’s XSun. However, XFree86 and Xi Graphics X Windows graphics card server software do support wheel mice [Thanks to Alan Orndorff]. _________________________________________________________________ (4.

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Partly (with native XSun). Configure it as a 3-button PS/2 mouse. The wheel won’t scroll anything, but pressing the wheel down is the same as pressing the middle button. The same holds true for Logitech’s MouseMan Wheel mice. XFree86 and Xi Graphics X Windows graphics card server software do support wheel mice. Wheel events can also be obtained with Xsun by replacing the Xsun mouse module and Solaris mouse driver with one of the ones from: http://www.tools.de/solaris/ps2wheel/ for PS/2 and http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/usb-usbsm.html for USB mice.