From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 11:22:59 2003 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 DBE1437B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2AF43F75 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id BD2F94FA7E; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:08:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5828486A; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:08:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:08:56 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: scroll mouse In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:05:11 > > Brian Henning wrote: > > >Hello- > > >i have a logitech 2 button mouse with a wheel in the middle. > > >i would like to get the wheel to work in x-windows, but i can't get the > > >scrolling to work. > > >here is what i have done so far. > > > > > >rc.conf > > >-------- > > >moused_type="ps/2" > > >moused_port="/dev/psm0" > > >moused_enable="YES" > > >moused_flags="-z 4" > > > > > >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > > >... > > >Section "InputDevice" > > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > > Driver "mouse" > > > Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" > > > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > > > Option "Buttons" "5" > > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > >EndSection > > >... > > > > You can try using the "Auto" protocol, that's always worked for me. I don't > spot any [obvious] problems... > > > > Joshua > > > > > > Need a new email address that people can remember > > Check out the new EudoraMail at > > http://www.eudoramail.com > > > > i have tried 'auto' in the past, but without success. > thanks, > brian > For what it's worth, I have a couple Logitech mice like yours and the wheel only works with the "Auto" protocol and with moused *disabled*. I could never get it to work with moused enabled, apparently X must have direct access to it. Which of course never bothered me, as I hate a mouse pointer in terminal mode... HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message