Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:44:46PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
> I've just installed the latest 5.3 beta with XOrg 6.7.0.
> The mouse works, except I can't get the mouse wheel to work.
> 
> The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "Auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>         Option      "Buttons" "5"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> The last two option lines are as the XFree86 config on my
> old 4.x install was.
> 
> Is there something simple and obvious I haven't done?

This needs to go in /etc/rc.conf
moused_flags="-a .4"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
moused_enable="YES"

The value afther a is a correction factor.

-- 
Alex

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