Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:22:43 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Okano Mouse Message-ID: <200303241722.43709.will@unfoldings.net> In-Reply-To: <1048517815.3e7f1cb7cd0d3@www.swissgeeks.com> References: <1048517815.3e7f1cb7cd0d3@www.swissgeeks.com>
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On Monday 24 March 2003 16:56, someone, possibly Pierrick Brossin, typed:
> Hey!
Hello :)
> I received that mouse from someone who got it in Germany and it seems
> it's impossible to find
> Okano's website!
> So I assume it's some kind of working/cheap/unknown mouse :)
Doesn't really matter, most "weird-brand" PS/2 mice these days either use
some odd Logitech or MS IntelliMouse Explorer PS/2 compatible protocol. I
have a Sahara mouse (completely unknown outside South Africa) which works
perfectly.
> I tried the ZAxisMapping trick, I tried to set the mouse up in rc.conf
> and use sysmouse in X config file.
> And a lot of other stuff!
You might want to update the tricks you are trying, some things have changed
since the HOWTOs and documentation was written, sadly, most people get it
working and leave it at that, neglecting to update the docs.
> Do you have any advise or thing I could test to make the wheel work ?
Here are some snip-outs from my configuration files. The Sahara mouse has
three buttons, of which the wheel is one, and two thumb buttons on the
side. I have managed to get all of it working with these:
#/etc/rc.conf:
moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
moused_flags="-z 4"
Pay special attention to the -z flag, you'll see why just a few paragraphs
down...
#/etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "SampleRate" "1500"
Option "Resolution" "1024"
EndSection
If you do not have the thumb buttons, simply changing the 7 to a 5 in the
buttons option should set it up for your mouse. The sample rate and
resolution tweaks are there because my mouse is optical, and they help a
great deal. If your mouse is optical, check its manual for optimal
settings, if it's rubber ball mechanics, you should be able to take those
out completely.
Note the absence of ZAxisMapping. This is because it's nolonger needed if
you pass the -z switch to moused(8), which is the proper way of doing this
on BSD these days. A setting of -z 4 means to map buttons 4 and 5, you can
have finer controle over this too, check the moused(8) man page for
details.
Hope this helps
Will
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