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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:22:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To:        Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net>
Cc:        Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: MS IntelliMouse Optical + FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0201071821000.6357-100000@mandrake.velosystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020107212128.244aef75.matthew@starbreaker.net>

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Are you using yours as USB or PS/2? For me, as PS2 it would give me
skillions of psmintr errors and eventually force a reboot. As USB it
would randomly lock up and force a reboot. I moved it to my Linux box
where it does the same thing, only less often.


On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Matthew
Graybosch wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:23:16 +0100
> "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > on freebsd-questions you wrote, that you were using the MS IntelliMouse
> > Optical.
> > I also use this thingie and am content.
> > Did you manage to get the 4th and 5th buttons (the outside ones) into
> > any use?
>
> I don't really use the outer buttons, but they *do* work.
>
> If you're using XDM put this in ~/.xsession, otherwise stick it in
> ~/.xinitrc:
>
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
>
> Also, you need the following lines in XF86Config's mouse section:
>
> Option	"Buttons" 	"7"
> Option	"ZAxisMapping"	"6 7"
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>


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