Subject: Using a wheel mouse with X
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 12/24/1999 17:26:02
Folks,
I lashed out and updated my mouse technology to the late 20th
century. My machine now sports a very nice logitech cordless wheel
mouse. I am able the use the mouse fine using the opms kernel config
option (yes, it is a ps/2 style mouse). In X this makes the mouse
work as a 3 button mouse which is fine BUT I want more! I want the
wheel to work too! I read the README.mouse in the X11R6 and it said
they were supported with some provisos so I config'ed up a kernel with
wscons and rebooted. The mouse was found as a pmsi (IIRC). I
attempted to start up X after saying I had a PS/2 mouse in the
XF86Config but the cursor skips all over the place indicating I have
used the wrong protocol. I tried all the protocol options with no
success. The one that sounds correct is the xxxPS/2 protocol but X
says that my OS does not support that protocol. I tried grabbing a
-current copy of the xc from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (dated about Dec 14)
but I still get the same message. Are there any patches to make this
work or do I start hacking?
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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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