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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I found a 45 page online howto about mice, including lots of info on 
scrool mice.  Apparently in addition to adding a line or two to XF86Config 
you also need to modify .Xdefaults for xterm, and other things for other 
programs, and Opera is not even listed.  Rxvt 2.4.6 or later, and XFree 
3.3.2 and later, can work with wheel mice, of which there are many sorts.  
The PS/2 type are all supposed to use IMPS/2 but there is no mention of 
needing imwheel.  Serial scroll mice use protocol intellimouse.

In the meantime my partner declared that this mouse did not feel write and 
plugged in the next nearest mouse (which got recycled after it did not 
work in either DOS or Win98) and then a 3-button thing and he asks what 
the third button is used for in linux, or even in Windows.  I hunted all 
over the web and they always assume you know what to use it for and just 
need to configure it, or switch it from 2 to 3 buttons.  BL seems to make 
it easy to configure the 3-button mouse (even BL3 asks politely if you 
have one) but I don't even know what to do with the right (2nd) button.

One page contained many diagrams of the insides of mice showing how 
3-button mice were hooked up, and how the 2/3 switches worked.  I should 
have saved the one I threw out in order to understand it.