From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 23:23:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417D616A406; Sat, 13 May 2006 23:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB68843D48; Sat, 13 May 2006 23:23:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-102-190.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.102.190]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 May 2006 19:24:37 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,125,1146456000"; d="scan'208"; a="203469684:sNHT25113696" From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17510.26900.967943.20444@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:17:40 -0400 To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-Reply-To: <86slnd60lm.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <445E8E0E.9030705@pobox.sk> <86slnd60lm.fsf@xps.des.no> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta26) "endive" XEmacs Lucid Cc: martinko , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 6.9 issue -- option "ZAxisMapping" -- "4 5" vs "4 5 6 7" X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 23:23:49 -0000 Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: > > if i scroll my mouse wheel too fast, i'm suddenly moving in history > > instead of scrolling the page. one quick finger movement is enough to > > trigger this. very annoying. > > Here's an entry in Novell's bugzilla for a similar issue in Linux: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144682 > > I believe the information is equally applicable to FreeBSD. To > translate and summarize, ums(4) needs to learn to distinguish > between IntelliMouse and IntelliMouse Explorer, becaue they have > slightly different protocols; moused(8) already knows about this > and handles it correctly, but only for PS/2 mice. There may - I repeat, _may_ - be another complication. Recently (after the first of the year, I think) MS brought out a new (USB) IntelliMouse Explorer. It looks more or less like the old one, but works on a slightly different protocol. Basic mouse functions work under Windows ME with the old driver (the new driver knows only XP); under Xorg 6.9 some things are off by just a little bit. For example: trying to grab the corner of a window to resize it, I'm frequently presented with a window manager (fvwm2) menu. If, however, I grab about one-sixteenth of an inch above the corner suddenly the resize works. Robert Huff