4 button trackball via USB adaptor...

[Garth Johnson]

I have this device as well and use it directly with my laptop's USB port
- all buttons function individually and as expected. This is true on
several laptops in fact (all running Ubuntu Jackalope or Karmic) - but
all with USB directly, no adapter. Hope that helps.

Garth

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 	When I have my trackball (Kensington Expert Mouse) connected via PS/2 
> connector, the upper-left button button 2, according to xev) works as 
> the middle button. Ubuntu 9.10...
> 	When I connect it via a PS/2-USB adaptor, (by TRENDNet), the top 2 
> buttons (2 & 9) act the same as the lower 2 (plain left & right 
> buttons). xev reports them as 1 & 3. I looks around, and found some info 
> about using different things to get it to work. Quickly my eyes glazed 
> over...
> 	Is it possible that the adaptor is "filtering: the other 2 buttons, and 
> changing thier presses to be just the same as 1 & 3? IOW, am I out of 
> luck, no chance of getting button 3 to act as the middle button through 
> the USB adaptor? Or do I have a chance?
>
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