Using imwheel with Freebsd 6.1 and xorg 6.9.0_2

Geoffrey Giesemann geoffwa at cs.rmit.edu.au
Thu Jun 1 17:33:16 PDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:40:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> Geoffrey Giesemann <geoffwa at cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
> > I tried pointing xorg at /dev/ums0 but the same problem crops up.
> > (although the mouse seems rather more sensitive now)
> 
> ums(4) doesn't know how to handle Explorer mice; it treats them as
> regular IntelliMice.
> 

I fired up xev, and repeated rapid scrolling appears to generate
ButtonPress/Releases for buttons 6 and 7.

Reducing the ZAxisMapping in xorg.conf to buttons 4 and 5 (the default
is "4 5 6 7") fixes the problem.

--Geoff


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