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To: Luiz Claudio Duarte <arcadia@luiz.claudio.nom.br>
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Subject: Re: Logitech mouse woes (moused and X)
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I don't have a clear solution to your problem (as I prefer ps/2), but
this page has a lot of info when it comes to setting up a mouse on
your machine:

http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/index.html

Presented mainly for helping folks with wheelie mice, it has links to
other sites as well. Hope this helps.
-Otter


Luiz Claudio Duarte wrote:
> 
> I have been trying unsuccesfully to get a Logitech three-button serial
> mouse to work with moused and X. I believe it is a FirstMouse (at least
> it looks like the FirstMouse photos at logitech.com).
> 
> Probe mode on moused replies with:
> 
>         /dev/cuaa1 serial microsoft generic
> 
> I can get the mouse to work with microsoft or mouseman protocols (but no
> others). However, the middle button does not work in either mode. I have
> configured moused in rc.conf to run as
> 
>         moused -p /dev/cuaa1 -c -t mouseman
> 
> Things got a little weirder under X. I could not get X to control the
> mouse directly (I killed moused), even with the Microsoft protocol. It
> works with SysMouse and /dev/sysmouse... but even with "Buttons 3" the
> middle button does not work. Worse, although the screen draws ok, many
> fonts are not displayed correctly (xterm, for instance, gives an
> uniformly black window).
> 
> I found a lot of messages about Logitech mice both on -questions and on
> Usenet, but I couldn't find one that quite helped solve these problems.
> I hope someone here can help. FWIW, here are the relevant(?) parameters
> on my XF86Config:
> 
> ================
> Section "Pointer"
>         Protocol        "SysMouse"
>         Device          "/dev/sysmouse"
>         Buttons         3
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier      "forum local"
>         VendorName      "Dell"
>         ModelName       "XYZ"
>         HorizSync       31.5-35.5 kHz
>         VertRefresh     50-70 Hz
>         Modeline        "800x600"   36.00   800  840  912 1024   600 601  603 641
>         Modeline        "640x480"   25.18   640  664  760  800   480 491  493 525
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "SiS 5597"
>         VendorName      "XYZ"
>         BoardName       "ZYX"
>         Option          "no_accel"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Driver          "svga"
>         Device          "SiS 5597"
>         Monitor         "forum local"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth           8
>                 Modes           "800x600"
>                 ViewPort        0 0
>                 Virtual         1024 768
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> ================
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> --
> People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow
> old because they quit playing. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
> 
> LCD (arcadia@luiz.claudio.nom.br)
> 
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