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# The 3 Button Serial Mouse mini-HOWTO

## Geoff Short, geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk

v1.33, 31 May 1998

How to get a 3 button serial mouse working properly under Linux.

## 1. Disclaimer

## 2. Introduction

## 3. Serial Ports

## 4. Switched Mice

## 5. Normal Mice

## 6. Switching a Mouse to 3-Button Mode

## 7. Wheeled mice

## 8. Using gpm to Switch Mouse Modes

## 9. Using two mice

## 10. XF86Config and Xconfig file examples

## 11. Cables, extensions and adaptors

## 12. Miscellaneous Problems and Setups

## 13. Models Tested

## 14. Further Information

## 15. Mouse Tail

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