Dell D620

Mouse middle click problems

Since moving to Fedora 9 the middle click emulation has not worked the same. The bottom two mousepad buttons can be clicked together to give a middleclick, but not the top two.

Who wants to bet I'm going to need xmodmap? http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xmodmap.1.html

The kernel seems to think I have 4 mice.

# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1 
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=500f 2002002 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff ffffffff
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=6337
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event3 
B: EV=f
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=1000003

Purchase thoughts

TODO replace the image with a photo of my D620 running Linux

• http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd620/en/index.htm

• http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd620/en/UG/index.htm

• http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d620_nz?c=nz&l=en&s=bsd

• http://dellstore.dell.com.au/public/default.jsp?c=nz&s=bsd&l=en&rflag=R

  • Latitude(TM) D620 Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo Processor T2500 (2.0GHz)
  • 2GB (2x1GB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
  • 8X DVD+/-RW Combo Drive
  • 9-Cell Li-Ion Primary Battery (1 Year Warranty)
  • Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 (802.11 a/g) MiniPCI Card
  • D620 Integrated Base Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950
  • 14.1" Wide Aspect Ultrasharp(TM) XGA+ (1440x900) Display
  • Dell(TM) Palmrest with Fingerprint Reader
  • 80GB SATA (7200RPM) Hard Drive
  • NZD 3,736.13 (GSTincl)

• Decided Intel 950 not Quadro NVS110M (aka GeForce Go 7300)???

  • Mostly because the Intel 950 drivers are open source and I know they work well in Linux, for suspending as well as display, and this isn't a games machine

  • D620 Discrete Base 256MB NVIDIA(R) Quadro NVS 110M TurboCache(TM) [+ NZD 90.00 ]

  • http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/

  • http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=150745

  • http://dancorkill.home.comcast.net/tecra-m5-on-fc5.html

  • http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

  • http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8756/README/appendix-a.html

• http://www.gcn.com/print/25_12/40745-1.html

• http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2846&laptop=Dell+Latitude+D620+Review

• http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/dell_latitude_d620_laptop.html

• http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~gml27/d620.html Fedora

• http://www.fzu.cz/~kolorenc/d620 SuSE

• http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas/D620F6.html Ubuntu

• http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&message.id=7440&query.id=204652#M7440