From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 19:17:41 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 788DD37B401; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96E343EC5; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA56496; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:17:37 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA17118; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:17:37 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200212020317.OAA17118@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: Adam Weinberger Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: debugging wheel mouse In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 01 Dec 2002 18:50:10 -0800. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:17:37 +1100 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 > I disagree. The necessity of "protocol auto" is documented all the heck > over the place, from the Handbook to the FAQ to the README.mouse file > that comes with X itself. Well, I spent a week or so reading the FAQ, searching the mail lists, reading man pages and never saw the fact that "protocol auto" gave different results to "protocol sysmouse" mentioned - nor the fact that although "protocol auto" reports it is using "sysmouse", it is not the same. That is just plain confusing and should be prominently mentioned. I never saw any such mention, despite plenty of effort to solve this problem, so I reckon it needs better documenting. And, README.mouse says, >3.3 FreeBSD > >FreeBSD supports the "SysMouse" protocol which must be specified when the >moused daemon is running in versions 2.2.1 or later. > >When running the mouseddaemon, you must always specify the /dev/sysmouse >device and the "SysMouse" protocol to the X server, regardless of the actual >type of your mouse. which actually tells you to do the +wrong+ thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message