Date: 03 Aug 2003 17:14:46 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <frank@frankjahnke.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mouse/X11 Documentation and Moused Message-ID: <1059956086.223.36.camel@jahnke.fmjassoc.com>
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List,
I'm sending this summary of my efforts to get the wheel mouse to work in
FreeBSD 4.8 and XFree86 4.3. I sent along a couple of messages earlier,
but they seemed to get muddled...
There are two ways to get the wheel mouse to work. I have succeeded
only if X11 does the translations, but not using moused. I would like
to do this... Has anyone succeeded in getting a wheel mouse to scroll
in X with moused translation?
X11 Translations:
First, remove or comment out the line moused_enabled="YES" in
/etc/rc.conf if it is present. This turns off moused, which was the root
of my problems. Then in /etc/X11/XF86Config use the following:
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
I've left out various other options from InputDevice; these can be added
back in if you like. Note that my Identifier is Mouse0, which
corresponds to my CorePointer at the end of XF86Config. The line
setting Buttons to 5 is probably superfluous, but I didn't check that.
So the documentation in the FAQ is correct, AS LONG AS MOUSED IS
DISABLED, and YOU USE A CONSISTENT IDENTIFIER FOR INPUTDEVICE. I had
had moused running, which caused the above to fail.
Moused Translations.
Alas, this does not work yet. I'm still setting up FreeBSD, so I am
spending a LOT of time editing configuration files, particularly for X.
I do most of these in the console window; I'd really like to keep the
mouse working here.
So, I did the following: activate in moused in rc.conf as
moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
moused_flags="-z 4"
allscreens_flags="-m on"
which also enables the mouse for the virtual consoles. Before enabling
moused, "moused -p /dev/psm0 -i all" gives "/dev/psm0 ps/2 sysmouse
MouseMan+", so BSD is correct in detecting my hardware. The file
/etc/X11/XF86Config contains:
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
It doesn't matter if ZAxisMapping is removed or not -- this does not
work.
So -- has anyone succeeded in getting a wheel mouse to scroll in X with
moused translation?
Frank
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