Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:17:37 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: debugging wheel mouse Message-ID: <200212020317.OAA17118@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 01 Dec 2002 18:50:10 -0800.
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> I disagree. The necessity of "protocol auto" is documented all the heck > over the place, from the Handbook to the FAQ to the README.mouse file > that comes with X itself. Well, I spent a week or so reading the FAQ, searching the mail lists, reading man pages and never saw the fact that "protocol auto" gave different results to "protocol sysmouse" mentioned - nor the fact that although "protocol auto" reports it is using "sysmouse", it is not the same. That is just plain confusing and should be prominently mentioned. I never saw any such mention, despite plenty of effort to solve this problem, so I reckon it needs better documenting. And, README.mouse says, >3.3 FreeBSD > >FreeBSD supports the "SysMouse" protocol which must be specified when the >moused daemon is running in versions 2.2.1 or later. > >When running the mouseddaemon, you must always specify the /dev/sysmouse >device and the "SysMouse" protocol to the X server, regardless of the actual >type of your mouse. which actually tells you to do the +wrong+ thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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