From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 2:17: 5 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 DD0DD37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 02:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lorica.ucc.usyd.edu.au (lorica.ucc.usyd.edu.au [129.78.64.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F3D43E13 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 02:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kanaley@student.usyd.edu.au) Received: from student.usyd.edu.au (int-243.stjohns.usyd.edu.au [172.16.60.243]) by lorica.ucc.usyd.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA29451; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:16:51 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D201DCA.7040104@student.usyd.edu.au> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:15:54 +1000 From: J Lachlan Kanaley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Robbins , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mouse problem References: <20020630220453.23056.qmail@web11207.mail.yahoo.com> <001701c22088$5cfe3580$6400a8c0@Administrator> <20020630235305.GA3845@scott1.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 If you are running the console mouse, then you need to set the type to auto and the device to /dev/sysmouse. To get my mouse wheel to work (i have a genius netmouse+) i also added the line Options buttons 5 to /etc/X11/XF86Config and also added 'moused_flags="-z 4 5"' to /etc/rc.conf. To see what that does check out man moused. Good luck! - lachlan Scott Robbins wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:49:14PM +0100, Lee wrote: > >>When installing X what mouse did you select? >> >>I have had this problem myself and found that if I selected a PS/2 >>Intellimouse even though I have an Intellimouse the same thing happened. >> >>What I did in the end was to select a standard PS/2 3 button mouse and add >>the necessary lines to the XF86Config file to get the scroll wheel to work. >>Sorry cannot remember what the lines are and I don't run a X GUI at present >>so I cannot look at my config, but if I find them I will post again. > > > Sometimes this gets fixed by changing protocol to "Auto" > > > Other times, of course, that doesn't do it but it's worth a shot ifyou > haven't tried it yet. > > Scott Robbins > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message