mouse button emulation - Powerpc
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I have a PowerBook G4 and I am trying to get F10 and F11 to emulate
the missing mouse buttons. For some reason, the instructions I find on
many web pages are not working. I do:
sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation=1
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mouse button emulation
Hi,
I have a PowerBook G4 and I am trying to get F10 and F11 to emulate
the missing mouse buttons. For some reason, the instructions I find on
many web pages are not working. I do:
sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation=1
sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode=68
sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode=87
The above seem to work in that sysctl reports sthe new settings. (I
am not typing on the PowerBook so there might be some misspelling.)
After this, I see that F10 and F11 have stopped working as function
keys, but they do not appear to work as mouse buttons. For instance,
they do not invoke the blackbox root menus nor does F10 paste in
consoles or xterms.
I have also tried playng with pbbuttons (via powerprefs) to change
keyboard behavior between "Function keys with Fn key" or "Hotkeys with
Fn key", but nothing seems to change.
I am using Slackintosh 9.1. The trackpad is working together with the
only button.
Thanks for your help,
Stefano
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Stefano | Department of Psychology, University of Bologna
Ghirlanda | Interdisciplinary cultural research, Stockholm University
http://www.intercult.su.se/~stefano
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Re: mouse button emulation
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
> I have a PowerBook G4 and I am trying to get F10 and F11 to emulate
> the missing mouse buttons. For some reason, the instructions I find on
> many web pages are not working. I do:
>
> sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation=1
> sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode=68
> sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode=87
>
> The above seem to work in that sysctl reports sthe new settings. (I
> am not typing on the PowerBook so there might be some misspelling.)
> [...]
Hmmm... maybe you are missing some of the adb & emumousebtn settings in your
kernel config? I happen to echo 1, 68, and 87
into /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid_mouse_emulation, mouse_button2_keycode, and
mouse_button3_keycode on startup... but the sysctl alternative should work
just as well.
Do you have the following in your kernel config? (names on left in
uppercase)
config_adb=y
config_adb_macio=y
config_input_adbhid=y
config_mac_adbkeycodes=y
config_mac_emumousebtn=y
config_mac_hid=y
- Jason
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Re: mouse button emulation
Jason Byrne writes:
> Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
>> I have a PowerBook G4 and I am trying to get F10 and F11 to emulate
>> the missing mouse buttons. For some reason, the instructions I find on
>> many web pages are not working. I do:
>>
>> sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation=1
>> sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode=68
>> sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode=87
>>
>> The above seem to work in that sysctl reports sthe new settings. (I
>> am not typing on the PowerBook so there might be some misspelling.)
>> [...]
>
> Hmmm... maybe you are missing some of the adb & emumousebtn settings in your
> kernel config? I happen to echo 1, 68, and 87
> into /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid_mouse_emulation, mouse_button2_keycode, and
> mouse_button3_keycode on startup... but the sysctl alternative should work
> just as well.
I think I had some kernel setting wrong, or I did not recompile hte
kernel after changing the configuration. Now the button emulation
works. It time to spend some effort on sleep/wakeup now!
Thanks for your reply,
Stefano
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Stefano | Department of Psychology, University of Bologna
Ghirlanda | Interdisciplinary cultural research, Stockholm University
http://www.intercult.su.se/~stefano
