Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Sat Sep 25 15:03:20 PDT 2004


Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:

 > I have been using PS/2 for mouse and keyboard since I got my first
 > ATX-board. I tried a USB-mouse once, under Linux, and it didn't work, so
 > I never tried again... ;-/ If it has to do with the mouse being a
 > USB-mouse, I'm out of my element. =(



The same mouse on the same box worked in 4.x with XFree86, that's what's
so odd about this ...


 > But wait, does moused work? If not, is it giving any error messages?



Seems to work - I have a mouse cursor when not in X.


 > If moused does not work - or doesn't work with the mousewheel, anyway -
 > X.org won't support the mousewheel, either.
 > You can also try to configure moused via /sbin/sysinstall.



Did that :-)

Thanks anyway :-)


- d.



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