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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:48:08 -0600
From:      Mario Doria <madd@tecdigital.net>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Modify entry in usbd.conf to support wheeled mice
Message-ID:  <20020306014809.2AFF07164@mario.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1015378526.464.19.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20020306010929.75E397164@mario.localdomain> <1015378526.464.19.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 19:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:39, Mario Doria wrote:
> > Is there any way to make usbd read /etc/rc.conf so it can suck in the
> > moused_flags=3D"-z 4" flag?
>
> I don't believe so..
>
> IMHO it makes sense to make the defaults for moused and usbd such that
> they always use -z 4..
>
Yeah, good idea. I thought of that but I did not know it didn't affect=20
moused. I don't know if there are mice with 5 buttons and no wheel, but=20
*maybe* some mice from Logitech or msoft would have more than 5 buttons=20
(programmable ones) and moused would start doing strange stuff.=20

Anyway, for the time being, to change usbd.conf to reflect the -z 4 flag=20
works. :)

> If you don't have a wheel mouse it won't affect you, if you do it will
> Just Work.
>
> If you have a 5 button non wheel mouse.. well, send me a photo :)
>


> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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