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From: JT (JTibbitt_at_odu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 12:53:31 CDT

John,
I could not find a model number anywhere, but it is called the
3dConnexion SpaceNavigator for Notebooks:

http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacenavigatorfornotebooks.php

It's a cool little mouse. But the website does list it as new.
Jeff

On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:34 PM, John Stone wrote:

>
> Jeff,
> Which model of Spaceball are you trying out? The RS232 spaceball
> driver compiled into VMD is something I wrote myself and it only
> supports
> the older Spaceball 2003/3003 models. If you have a Spaceball
> 4000FLX or
> one of the other newer models it probably won't work in that case.
> As for which device node to use for the serial port, that depends on
> what
> USB/RS232 converter device you're using. I would expect the docs
> for the
> RS232 converter device to talk about this. If you have one of the
> later
> model Spaceball 4000xxx USB devices, my RS232 driver probably won't
> work.
> Let me know if you need more help with this.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:30:04PM -0400, JT wrote:
>> Hi. I'm trying to hook up a 3DConnexion Spaceball mouse for use with
>> VMD. The mouse works with other 3D programs, so I'm pretty sure it
>> was installed correctly. The VMD Userguide says that the
>> VMDSPACEBALLPORT environment variable must set to the Unix device
>> name
>> of the serial port to which the Spaceball is attached, and that also
>> the permissions must be set to allow the VMD user to open the device
>> for reading and writing. How do I find out which port the mouse is
>> using? I tried /dev/ttys0 (just to see what happens), and set the
>> permissions as suggested. Upon startup, VMD recognizes the mouse and
>> understands which port I set, but it does not work. I see many ports
>> in /dev, but nothing that sticks out as a 3DConnexion enabled port.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>
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