4 button trackball via USB adaptor...

[Dave Woyciesjes]

	Thanks. Sounds like you have a newer model, mine is only PS/2, hence 
the needed adaptor for use on the new machine...

Garth Johnson wrote:
> 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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