Posted by Bluepoint on January 03, 2002 at 00:04:44:
In Reply to: Re: Anyone know how to swap the XY on a ps/2 mouse? posted by Riff on 2, 2002 at 1:46 AM:
I had the exact same problem as you... I hacked a comp usa trackball and had to put it in at an angle... But I'm running under windows, so I used the Mouse Pointer Orientation set up that's part of the microsoft mouse drivers... You can set the trackball to any angle you feel like...
Works great... I don't know of a dos equivalent though..
Bluepoint.
: The PCB is what I'm mounting (no case), and it's rectangular. What I'm using is the CompUSA trackball. It fits really, really nicely sideways. The optics are soldered to the PCB, so I'm not sure how I would ghetto rig them, but I would love to do it that way if I could...
: I was hoping I could swap a couple of the wires going to the DIN connector, but I found that only one wire contains the data.
: I looked at download.com for a while today too, and didn't see anything... Dang it :)
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: : Rotate it 90 degrees : )
: : But seriously, you can try to rotate the PCB inside the mouse 90 degrees. If not, you can ghetto rig the optics by wiring them into their opposites. Example: the 2 wires from the optics that usually go to the x axis, go to the y axis and vice versa. If not, I'm sure there's a program at download.com that could do it. Good luck!
: : -Kev