From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 21:33:31 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 2758B16A494 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:33:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from afishionado@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB85B43D5D for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afishionado@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so332972wxd for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:33:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=NQjiNZdBvGX+3ZxVCOUpvwK/ZScgfqf4MpA3A8+qKK8hW8kIEVGZKjwmhgur/D2Ep0sKeR3tJkmQGJ2GFGO3ByTOrsdAgbozmvfwy9JxE3Z7Zew3sprFxKo7MITRsZ4GXTjzlN5UCxPZl0DaEbudhEfDVLugNPCWruvXOVJFJUY= Received: by 10.70.92.14 with SMTP id p14mr1498437wxb; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.112.13 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:33:29 -0700 From: "William Tracy" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Logitech optical mouse w/ scroll wheel 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: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:33:31 -0000 Hello, I thought I'd document my experiences with my Logitech optical USB mouse under FreeBSD 6.1 release 1 so that maybe it will help the next person hunting with Google. :-) First off, the moused configuration in sysinstall gave me a headache. Whenever I tried to test a configuration, the cursor would flicker onscreen then disappear before I could move the mouse. In frustration, I selected the option that I thought should work, selected "Yes, the mouse moves", then shut the computer off. When I booted FreeBSD the next day, the mouse worked, and I was off on my way to configuring Xorg. Next issue: Once I had X up, the mousewheel didn't work. KDE recognized all three buttons (the mousewheel being the middle button), but didn't recognize wheel scroll events. I dredged deep through Google's search results, and found this: http://www.daemonnews.org/mailinglists/FreeBSD/freebsd-x11/msg00017.html I followed the directions, rebooted (I always screw up when I try to manually kill daemons--feisty little buggers) and joy came to me that I would not have to go back to Ubuntu for my mouse to work right. (Incidentally, the mouse wheel has worked fine under every Linux distro I've tried except Slackware. Even Gentoo magically detected it. Go figure.) William