From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 13: 1:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD36B154F7 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA07056; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:59:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:59:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199908161959.OAA07056@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Reynolds~ Cc: Doug , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hints on getting MouseMan+ "wheel" working? In-Reply-To: <14264.24554.415959.550737@hip186.ch.intel.com> References: <14264.14169.884729.877403@hip186.ch.intel.com> <14264.24554.415959.550737@hip186.ch.intel.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Reynolds~ writes: > > [ On Monday, August 16, Doug wrote: ] > > > > My read on the relevant stuff from XFree and moused was that it's > > not possible given the current state of things. The only thing moused does > > for you is give you the option of cut and paste in a cons25 terminal > > window, so if you're using X anyway it's not necessary. If you sometimes > > need to use the terminal window then switch to X you can always turn > > moused on, then turn it off again when you have to start up X. > > > > It would be nice to have moused support wheels on PS/2 mice, but > > if you're only using X you're not missing anything anyway. > > Interesting. Thanks for the information. You're right--I'm in X 99.9999% of > the time anyway so I could probably just live without moused running and > just point my X config file to /dev/psm0 to have things "work". > Does anyone know whether if you just point the X config to /dev/ums0, protocol auto (or something else?), a usb wheeled mouse would "just work"? > Thanks! > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | > | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | > | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message