Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:30:15 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Stephen Hansen <stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimice? Message-ID: <396FB097.3B865055@acuson.com> References: <012301bfede6$082ea980$0200a8c0@Ryan>
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Stephen Hansen wrote: > My understanding is that FreeBSD doesn't support USB mice -- am I right? > If so, it will work with the USB-to-PS/2 converter, I hope? Beyond that -- > what features of the mouse will work (or, more importantly, not work? ) I can't give you specifics, or someone will scream and flog :-), but I can discuss the issue... FreeBSD *does* support USB mice. And I am pretty sure that this means all USB mice. And X does support the scroll wheel, although it is up the the individual applications to use it. Qt-2 has methods for wheel mice, and I believe GTK does as well. I've also seen stand-alone wheel mice libraries for the straight-X and console guys to use. This means that a Qt-2 program (LinCVS, QCad or QBrew, for example) will recognize the wheel mouse and scroll the (focused) scrollbars appropriately. The wheel movement is translated by Qt into a scrollbar movement event instead of a mouse event. I'm pretty sure GTK works similarly. I don't have a wheel mouse or I would quickly test it. If the IntelliMouse (who comes up with these names!) uses standard mouse protocols, (and the MS hardware division has been good about this, even if their software division has not) then there should be no problem. If the FreeBSD sysmouse "driver" doesn't work in X for that mouse, fiddle about with other mouse types in XF86Setup until you find one that works. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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