From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 21:26:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6CF37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F73343E6A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 1C4A04FC8B; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:26:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170D84A0E; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:26:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:26:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: How to enable scrollwheel mouse? In-Reply-To: <20020808210511.H85736-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:06:46 -0400 (EDT) > From: Peter Leftwich > To: John Bleichert > Cc: FreeBSD LIST > Subject: Re: How to enable scrollwheel mouse? > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > > YMMV with this. Entertainingly, with my cordless Logitech wheelmouse, the > > wheel works great when I use it as a USB mouse, but when I use the > > USB->ps2 converter and use it as a ps2 mouse, the wheel doesnt work. HAHA! > > JB > > /* > > * John Bleichert > > * syborg@stny.rr.com > > * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > */ > > "YMMV?" I have the same mouse (Logitech Cordless Wheel Mouse). How did > you get it to work with XFree86? Do you know if it works with KDE's > Konqueror 2.2.2 browser perchance? > The XFree86 setup provided by everybody else so far worked fine for me, specifically the Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" line, which is all I really care about, as that's themouse wheel. Humorously, in FreeBSD the wheel only works when I run it as a USB mouse. Once I put the USB->PS/2 converter on it, the wheel works no more. I use it as a USB mouse, so all is well. This link got me going: http://www.freebsddiary.org/usb-mouse.php HTH - JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message