questions about adb_mouse on 9-stable.

[Justin Hibbits]

Hey Alfred,


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at ixsystems.com>wrote:

> Hello freebsd-ppc & Nathan!
>
> I have FreeBSD ppc working on a g4 macbookpro 12in.
>
> It works pretty awesome.
>
> The only nit I have is the mouse has a funny bug where after I hit a mouse
> button, then the keyboard is unresponsive until I touch the trackpad to
> move the mouse.  I'm wondering if there's a fix in place for this?
>

Yup, I filed a PR for this.  The keyboard is unresponsive because it thinks
the mouse button is still down.  My experience was only in X, but it may
also be on the console (PR powerpc/161045).


>
> One other question, is there a way to make holding down another key +
> hitting mouse button act as 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons?  Linux seems to have
> this feature: http://box.matto.nl/**linuxibook.html<http://box.matto.nl/linuxibook.html>look under "Pasting with one button mouse in Linux":
>
>  The iBook comes with a single mouse button. This makes pasting a new
>> challenge. One solution:
>>
>>   * edit /etc/sysctl.conf
>>   * use Fn-Apple-Click to paste
>>
>> Put this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
>>
>> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_**keycode = 125
>> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_**keycode = 126
>> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_**emulation = 1
>>
>
> If there's no time for this, any pointers to get started will be good.
>
> -Alfred
>

There is a sysctl for this, I think it's dev.ams.0.tapping (something like
that).

- Justin