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RE: Trackpoint support?
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw at agere dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:16:12 -0400
- Subject: RE: Trackpoint support?
Gerald,
Here you go:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-trackpoint
That will be 1 second of your 15 minutes of fame, please. :)
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Gerald S. Williams
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:06 AM
> To: Harold Hunt; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Trackpoint support?
>
>
> Harold Hunt wrote:
> > In this case you're going to have to do some investigation to
> find out how
> > the Trackpoint driver emulates a mouse wheel.
>
> Done.
>
> I found out that there is a special configuration file for the
> trackpoint driver. It's in /WINNT/System32/tp4table.dat in my
> case, although it looks like in the beta driver they've renamed
> it to tp4scrol.dat.
>
> The beta driver's at http://wwwcssrv.almaden.ibm.com/trackpoint
> (thanks to Scott Brim for the reference), although I was able
> to make my current driver work.
>
> I simply added the following to the end of the "Pass 0 rules"
> in that configuration file and rebooted:
>
> ; X Windows
> *,*,XWin.exe,*,*,cygwin/xfree86,WheelStd,0,9
>
> That tells the driver to use Wheel messages as opposed to
> whatever it normally does. Since the driver is capable of
> scrolling in both directions, it probably does look for the
> scrollbars by default. I was guessing a bit about what to
> put in this entry, although that one seems to work.
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't allow the button to work as a
> middle button as well, but -emulate3buttons works for me.
>
> -Jerry