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prague  
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 More options Apr 8 2004, 10:23 am
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From: "prague" <korndistort...@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:13:29 -0400
Local: Thurs, Apr 8 2004 7:13 am
Subject: dead mouse
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Hey everyone,

New to FreeBSD coming off of Slackware Linux.

I went through the install okay but the mouse (an optical mouse, non-USB) is dead when i do 'startx'. The mouse should be recognized as a PS/2 but it wasn't. I have edited the XF86Config and changed it to an IMPS/2 and added

Options "Buttons" "5"
Options "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

to the file. This was a fix for Slackware and I thought it may have been the same problem but, still nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks


 
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Hendrik Hasenbein  
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 More options Apr 8 2004, 3:23 pm
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From: Hendrik Hasenbein <hhase...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:32:02 +0200
Local: Thurs, Apr 8 2004 11:32 am
Subject: Re: dead mouse
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prague wrote:
> Hey everyone,

> New to FreeBSD coming off of Slackware Linux.

> I went through the install okay but the mouse (an optical mouse, non-USB) is dead when i do 'startx'. The mouse should be recognized as a PS/2 but it wasn't. I have edited the XF86Config and changed it to an IMPS/2 and added

> Options "Buttons" "5"
> Options "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

> to the file. This was a fix for Slackware and I thought it may have been the same problem but, still nothing.

> Any ideas?

I suppose you are using the wrong device. With moused:

Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"

Without (PS/2 mice):

Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"

Hendrik


 
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Tobias Aigner  
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 More options Apr 8 2004, 4:23 pm
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From: Tobias Aigner <li...@mangosuechtig.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:58:54 +0200
Local: Thurs, Apr 8 2004 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: dead mouse
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:13:29 -0400

"prague" <korndistort...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,

Hi,

> I went through the install okay but the mouse (an optical mouse,
> non-USB) is dead when i do 'startx'. The mouse should be recognized as
> a PS/2 but it wasn't. I have edited the XF86Config and changed it to
> an IMPS/2 and added

> Options "Buttons" "5"
> Options "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

In my case I have to put these lines in my XF86Config:

    Option "Protocol"    "SysMouse"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option "ZAXisMapping" "4 5"

And everything works fine for me. Just try it. Protocol Auto doesn't
work here correctly.

--
Tobias Aigner


 
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Bob Johnson  
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 More options Apr 8 2004, 11:23 pm
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From: Bob Johnson <bo...@wb4jcm.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:02:52 -0400
Local: Thurs, Apr 8 2004 8:02 pm
Subject: Re: dead mouse
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On Thursday 08 April 2004 07:13 am, prague <"prague"

<korndistort...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
> Hey everyone,

> New to FreeBSD coming off of Slackware Linux.

> I went through the install okay but the mouse (an optical mouse,
> non-USB) is dead when i do 'startx'. The mouse should be recognized
> as a PS/2 but it wasn't. I have edited the XF86Config and changed it
> to an IMPS/2 and added

It may help to post your actual configuration, since you haven't given
enough information to tell what it is.

> Options "Buttons" "5"
> Options "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

> to the file. This was a fix for Slackware and I thought it may have
> been the same problem but, still nothing.

> Any ideas?

I've found that in recent X11 releases, the FreeBSD mouse driver
(moused) doesn't seem to play well.  I don't use it, and I let X manage
the mouse directly.  For most mice, the "auto" protocol determination
works fine, e.g.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"
EndSection

The advantage of the mouse driver is that it lets you cut and paste when
you are using a text console (i.e. not using X).

- Bob


 
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