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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:59:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hints on getting MouseMan+ "wheel" working?
Message-ID:  <199908161959.OAA07056@beowulf.utmb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <14264.24554.415959.550737@hip186.ch.intel.com>
References:  <14264.14169.884729.877403@hip186.ch.intel.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908161150320.20342-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com> <14264.24554.415959.550737@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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John Reynolds~ writes:
 > 
 > [ On Monday, August 16, Doug wrote: ]
 > > 
 > > 	My read on the relevant stuff from XFree and moused was that it's
 > > not possible given the current state of things. The only thing moused does
 > > for you is give you the option of cut and paste in a cons25 terminal
 > > window, so if you're using X anyway it's not necessary. If you sometimes
 > > need to use the terminal window then switch to X you can always turn
 > > moused on, then turn it off again when you have to start up X. 
 > > 
 > > 	It would be nice to have moused support wheels on PS/2 mice, but
 > > if you're only using X you're not missing anything anyway. 
 > 
 > Interesting. Thanks for the information. You're right--I'm in X 99.9999% of
 > the time anyway so I could probably just live without moused running and
 > just point my X config file to /dev/psm0 to have things "work".
 > 

Does anyone know whether if you just point the X config to
/dev/ums0, protocol auto (or something else?), a usb wheeled
mouse would "just work"?

 > Thanks!
 > 
 > -Jr
 > 
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M. L. Dodson                                bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
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