Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:32:39 +0930 From: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> To: Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mouse wheel problem Message-ID: <1125806559.845.57.camel@au.dyndns.ws> In-Reply-To: <20050901163811.53206.qmail@web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050901163811.53206.qmail@web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:38 -0700, Dave McCammon wrote:
>
> --- Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It works for me without the "ZAxisMapping" option
> > (and the same
> > options in rc.conf):
> >
> > Identifier "Mouse1"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "Auto"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> > Option "Buttons" "5"
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ale
>
> I had a heck of a time getting my wheel to work in
> RELENG_6. Eventually, starting moused with setting in
> rc.conf(below) and turning off Emulate3Buttons (had to
> put line in with the "false". commenting out didn't
> work) and adding the "Buttons" line worked. The
> instructions out of the handbook didn't work this
> time.
>
I found the same with my Logitech MX500 - I had to add "Emulate3Buttons"
"false" whereas as best as I can remember it seemed that everything I
was reading at the time was telling me I only needed to set it to true
if I wanted to enable that option. Curious.
At the time this configuration was done I was probably running 5.3 and X
might still have been XFree86. The same config is working now with 5.4
and Xorg.
> xorg.conf sections--
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # Identifier and driver
>
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
>
> EndSection
>
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "8 9"
# Had to put this in because default is true!?!?
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "False"
Option "Buttons" "9"
EndSection
> rc.conf---
> moused_enable="YES"
> moused_type="auto"
> moused_flags="-z 4"
>
moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-a 2.0 -z 8"
moused_type="auto"
The ["ZAxisMapping" "8" "9"], ["Buttons" "9"] and [moused_flags="-z 8"]
entries allow me to use both the scroll-wheel *and* the two buttons
adjacent to the scroll-wheel to scroll - I quite like being able to just
hold down either of those two buttons to scroll through long documents,
as it's much less finger-strain than lots of wheeling, and often more
convenient than mousing the cursor into the scroll bars which tend to be
quite narrow on my high-res display.
> excerpt from dmesg--
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
>
> (It is a Logitech optic mouse.Two button with Wheel)
>
ums0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/18.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 7 buttons and Z dir.
I don't understand why it describes it as 7 buttons. There are the
'left' and 'right' buttons, two thumb buttons, two adjacent to the
mouse-wheel, plus another button on top behind the wheel, so that's 7
buttons. But then there's the wheel button itself which is the "third"
or "middle" button, so surely there are 8 buttons on this mouse, plus
the "Z dir" of the wheel. Curious.
Wayne
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