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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:17:06 -0500
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: The wheel of a mouse
Message-ID:  <200410202017.06250.racerx@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <d9175cad041020144244e1eafe@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ef60af0904101920024cb7512c@mail.gmail.com> <4176AA28.30501@mscweb.com> <d9175cad041020144244e1eafe@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:42 pm, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
> > Try this instead of auto:
> > Option  "Protocol"      "IMPS/2"
>
> I have to speak up and concur here.  On my system, I was not able to
> get moused to properly access my mousewheel.  (Yes, I was using the
> appropriate option(s) and did try quite a number fo things.)  However,
> when I switched to ImPS/2 and /dev/psm0 for X to do direct access of
> my mouse device, it began working perfectly.  I don't really use mouse
> on console anyways.  You may want to try that if it seems you're
> having troubles.

Here's how my wheel mouse is set:

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option      "Buttons"       "5"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"

This is running under 5.3-RC1
Good luck

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

Real programmers understand Pascal.



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