Subject: Re: Wondering about X11 ...
To: port-atari@NetBSD.ORG, (Thomas Gerner) <thomas@murmel.camelot.de>
From: Michael Brandt <mike@wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de>
List: port-atari
Date: 09/14/1997 02:21:18
Hello,

first of all thank you very much to Thomas and Andreas for your most helpful
answers!

On 13-Sep-97 Thomas Gerner wrote:
>There are 3 button mice available for the Atari.

Do you have any idea where I could get one? I once tried a 3 button trackball
but it didn't work. The manual page for msconfig tells me this:

     When the emulation is turned on, a middle-button event can be generated
     by simulaneously pressing the left and right buttons. When turned off, a
     middle-button event is generated by pushing the fire-button of joystick1.
     Note that you'll need a special type of mouse to use this.

Do the 3 button mice you mentioned work that way? Has their middle button
the same effect as pressing fire on joystick 1? I doubt that this is possible
for a device being attached to the mouse port.

>Also possible is to change
>a PC mouse for this purpos. I did this with a genius mouse and this works
>fine. But you must know where is the hot end of a soldering iron. :-)

Well, I'm not a wizard of the soldering iron, but a friend of mine is. I
asked him once about the possibility to change a PC mouse into an Atari mouse
and he told me that it would be quite difficult. How does your genius mouse
work? Ist it connected to the Atari mouse port or to one of the serial ports?
In case of the serial port what do I have to do to get Xdaniver to accept input
from that device? What hardware changes to the mouse are necessary?

>>Yet another thing: When running NetBSD with a text screen (no X11) I can use
>>this nice feature which allows me to switch between several screen by
>pressing
>>Alt-Fn. After starting X11 it doesn't work anymore. Is there any way to avoid
>>this?
>
>No way.

Why? Is X11 or the window manager eating the keypress? If I remember right
it works under Linux (Intel) to switch screens.

>>Still one more: I spend quite some time fiddeling with the xmodmap program to
>>get X to understand the input from my german keyboard but it still has
>>problems with the keys that can produce 4 different characters. For everyone
>>out there who doesn't know the german keyboard: there is a key which produces
>>the following characters:
>
>Use this map:
>[...]
>keysym Alt_L = Mode_switch

It works fine, but I had to restart the X server to get it to work. A simple
use of the xmodmap program from within the running server didn't do the trick.

One thing I forgot: The caps-lock key doesn't work. When testing it with
xev it tells me that it recognized caps-lock but pressing a letter key still
produces the lower case letter.


Greetings

Mike

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