[plug] Belkin KVM & Linux + XF86

[Craig Ringer]

Hi all
A quick question - Anybody used a Belkin 4port KVM before? I've got one 
here and its working great (just installed today) except for fairly 
serious mouse problems.

I've got a Microsoft Optical mouse (3button inc wheel, not "explorer") 
which works fine under XF86-4 normally. When hooked up through the KVM, 
it goes haywire wheneven its moved, generating all sorts of false clicks 
etc, and jamming the pointer close to the bottom-left corner of the 
screen. Not a happy thing at all. The mouse is USB with a PS/2 adapter 
but I had similar troubles with an older more basic (again MS) mouse 
that's native PS/2 when I tried it instead.

Changing the mouse protocol in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to "PS/2" from 
"IMPS/2" worked ok, but now I don't get scroll wheel events or middle 
click events. *aargghhhhh*. One of the few truly wonderful things MS 
did, that scroll wheel (or did they steal that from Logitech too?).

Adding

Option "Buttons" "3"
(or 5)

doesn't help. Xev doesn't respond with anything when the middle mouse 
button is clicked, and even cat /dev/psaux shows nothing. Anybody know 
of any sort of "hex-cat" program that'll show non-printing chars?

I'm going nuts here. Life w/o KVM == Hell but Life w/o 3btn&wheel == 
Hell too.... any ideas greatly appreciated. Google turned up reports of 
the problem but no solutions I could find.

Also anybody know if a mouse scroll wheel works under NT4SP2 (my other 
GUI-capable OS here) for comparison?

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