TurboMouse fix

[john s jacobs anderson]

Bad morning, Mark? 

> 1) mousehack is **ONLY** for TurboMouse 5.0 trackballs!  Not two button 4.0's.
> I had written a hack last year for my 4.0, but abandoned it when I got a 5.0.
> The 4.0 would actually require kernel mods to the ADB code since the two buttons
> send left and right arrow-key keycodes, and the kernel would have to recognize
> that they were coming from a different ADB address in order to properly treat
> them as mouse-button events.  Otherwise, the kernel just thinks you have two
> keyboards.  At least in kernel 2.1.24, the adb code treats anything with 
> dev-handler 2 as a keyboard, which in this case is faulty logic.

ok. 

> 2) You should NEVER edit source code with pico, since it breaks wrapped lines
> which turns source code into useless mulch.

did you look at the source? none of the lines were that long; I didn't
have emacs open, and vi(m) still gives me headaches. But thanks for the
heads up.

> 3) Did you type in your error messages by hand?  The macro used in my program
> is ADB_WRITEREG, with an underscore, not a hyphen.  It's no shock that the
> hyphenated version is undefined, as it don't exist.

yes, I did, and yes, my finger apparently slipped off the shift key for
the duration of the - keystroke. Mea maxima culpa, eh?

john.





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