From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 02:17:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7DE7616A420 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F9543D45 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:17:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so534985wxc for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rXDMS5FWYOi3zfr/K36kN2vROOBdDM/7GYq/teQr/hRYA10kQOEk10ikqAoNdljGeO9UmFXdAFV0muUskkNyEkHZeeAUZB2/SBZXyyJmf3rhbNNdytyOKWWS9+1l7Ku7AoCkfZxj76X7P+VQxe21yhBcSRbFohXeuiAXmTGP6nc= Received: by 10.70.62.18 with SMTP id k18mr1261078wxa; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.74.19 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20603311817h16127755w3349fd793d76ca97@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:17:26 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060401114034.08c121b1@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20603311013p8413672g95b9fcb4b68dc0ca@mail.gmail.com> <20060401114034.08c121b1@localhost> Subject: Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:17:27 -0000 Aye, it's got a lot of buttons, and I've tried transferring several of the config settings, however, none of the drivers they pointed to seem to exist in BSD, and they also pointed to devices, again nonexistant in bsd. example, one involves the following: Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" Option "Protocol" "evdev" If I try to use evdev, x refuses to start, and says said module does not exist in the log file. The other variants I've seen have similar modules that I can't find and won't load. Thanks, -Jim On 3/31/06, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:13:49 -0500 > "Jim Stapleton" wrote: > > > I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and > > this site, but I couldn't find any useful information on getting my > > MX518 working with all of it's buttons in BSD (were I to downgrade > > back to Linux, I could, but I'd rather not do that, ports is much more > > useful than the extra three buttons). > > > Hey Jim > i suppose this is a logitech mouse with lots of buttons? if you know it > works with linux, why not transfer the config from linux to freebsd? (u > dont need to install anything, just try knoppix). It should work out of > the box (I believe moused is same across platforms, and xorg shouldn't > worry too much about what OS it's being used under). > > otherwise, have u read man moused ? > > beto > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >