Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:27:51 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mouse wheel doesn't work Message-ID: <200707210232.l6L2WKTP018896@smtpclu-2.EUnet.yu> In-Reply-To: <1184981633.7989.6.camel@joe.realss.com> References: <1184965369.6013.21.camel@joe.realss.com> <200707202346.l6KNkdTY019727@smtpclu-5.eunet.yu> <1184981633.7989.6.camel@joe.realss.com>
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:33:53 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 01:42 +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: > > I think that then middle (wheel) click doesn't work; if it does, > > then >=20 > The middle click does work! However there is no middle key on thinkpad > track-point, thus it means at least some signal cannot be produced by > track-point is delivered to FreeBSD. In Ubuntu? Please don't forget that Linux and FreeBSD use the same Xorg, there is nothing Linux-specific about it. What can be the difference, however, is that Linux maybe uses tpctl -- please check if it is so. But even so, maybe some functionality (of the trackpoint for example) must be sacrified in order to get the external wheel working. =20 > > just copy Ubuntu xorg.conf entry or check if trackpoint and external > > ps/2 mouse use different /dev. >=20 > Unfortunately it seems in dmesg only psm0 is discovered. dmesg > attached dmesg is not here :) > > Please read this page: > >=20 > > http://salisburys.net/PetersNotes-TW.html > > (choose "External mouse wheels and wheel emulation...") >=20 > Very smart:) Well, have you tried that? (And I fotgot to ask: does wheel-click in FreeBSD produce an X event?) > > and consider experimenting with this: > >=20 > > http://tpctl.sourceforge.net > > =20 > > It doesn't seem ported, but they claim it runs on *BSD. Read the man > > page, --setup-pointing-device* options could maybe solve the > > problem. >=20 > compile failed with a lot of error messages. Ah, welcome to the realm of truth! A part of the world (very bad for them) is gnu/linux-centic. I can't test it at the moment since sourceforge is currently down, but please note two things: (a) configure script often can't find where libraries are installed; please take a look at './configure --help' and provide the correct paths where necessary; (b) don't forget that make (BSD make) is not fully compatible with the syntax of GNU Makefiles, so in that case you have to explicitly run 'gmake' when compiling something out of ports. (If you can't compile it, start a thread about it, people will jump in to help. Maybe you might even consider porting that peace of software to FreeBSD :)) > I'll try the good old PS2.EXE later on DOS. As you see, tpctl provides the same functionality as PS2.EXE and is very feature-rich (much more beyond wheel functionality). I checked, your Thinkpad model is listed as fully supported. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87
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