That reminds me, actually:

Does anyone know if there is an X support for the new mice with the
little wheels on them that are meant to activate scrolling behavior
under (gag) Windows?

.pm

"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
> 
> Matthias Drochner writes:
> > Excerpts from netbsd: 26-Jul-98 Re: X and wscons Jason Thorpe@nas.nasa.go (
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> 2)
> > 
> > >  > I've made some changes to XFree86 so that it can use wscons mice.
> > > [...]
> > > Please commit them.
> > 
> > I've just added a z axis definition to wsconsio.h.
> > So you can include this too, even if no mouse driver
> > supports it yet.
> > Are there absolute pointing devices with a z axis?
> 
> I am aware of the existance of 3d mice, but I don't know what X does
> with such things.
> 
> .pm