From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 12:23:41 2005 Return-Path: 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 9E9E816A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:23:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vslash.com (gambetta-2-82-67-185-6.fbx.proxad.net [82.67.185.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECC243D39 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from valery@vslash.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (hal.intranet.vslash.com [192.168.0.2]) by mail.vslash.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B251D7E831; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:24:22 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42230D76.9030408@vslash.com> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:24:22 +0100 From: Valery User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20050224 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO : Setting Up a mouse + wheel on a traditional ps/2 port in FBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:23:41 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Hey Valery, a few things on this: > > This only works for mice that support the intellimouse protocol. > > Simplest way to find out if your mouse supports this is to kill > the moused daemon, then issue the command: > > moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto -d -f > All right, this explain a lot of mis-understand things i found on the net (same parms working for one and not for others) > You should NEVER set the protocol for the mouse in either Xfree86 or > xorg to anything other than sysmouse, when using FreeBSD. And, if > your going to run X you should -always- run moused. > Ok, that's what i found. But, why X choose ps/2 when "Protocol" is set to "Auto" ? I'm afraid that informations about "Protocol" "sysmouse" are very difficult to find. I did not on my side, not even on the net nor on the FreeBSD or X documentations. > Note - many wheel mice use a push on the wheel as a second button. Thank > I don't understand how your X server got: > >> My X.log whith the 'sysmouse' protocol : >> (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" >> (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 > > when you had configured > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "X" > > If I knew I could probably tell you why rebooting worked. Sorry, it was the previous version of my log file. (always difficult to write a summary with a lot of pieces) Perhaps a mobo pb., or a forgot of mine, no matter to worry about that. I'm sometimes "Aemnesiac" too ... :o) Many thanks Ted for your tips. i hope that the whole thing will be interesting for others, sheding a light on this stuff. Just a little thing - to be clean - i found after posting : 2. Parameters /etc/X11/xorg.conf : Section "InputDevice" # All parms according to previous posts and ... Option "Emulate3Buttons" "Off" EndSection Regards, v/