[Gpm] 3-button PS/2 mice with serial adapters do not work with gpm

[Francois-Rene Rideau]

Dear GPM maintainers,
  it looks like three button PS/2 mice with serial adapters do not work
correctly with either gpm or X.
The mice are fully functional under Linux when on a PS/2 port,
you can get them to work as two-button on COM1 port with
	gpm -t ms -b 1200 -m /dev/ttyS0
but there is no way to get the middle button working this way.
-o rts has no effect, -o dtr stops the mouse from working
(or maybe it will work with different baud rate?)
I've tested this phenomenon with several PS/2 mice, adapters and computers.
It's an annoyance when using a modern mouse on an old computer without
ps/2 port.

Thanks for gpm. Keep up the good work,
and a happy new millenium to you.

Yours freely,

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
[  TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System  | http://tunes.org  ]
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