Question on PS/2 Wheelmouse through KVM

[Charles Howse]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 12:03 pm, Scott W wrote:
> User & wrote:
>  > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:22, Scott W wrote:
>  >>Via PS2 and through the KVM, it appears there's nothing I've found yet
>  >>that will enable the wheel, although the wheel 'button' itself works.
>  >
>  > Are you sure that this part is located in your /etc/X11/XF86config
>  > file?:
>  >
>  > Section "InputDevice"
>  >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>  >         Driver      "mouse"
>  >         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>  >         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>  >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # This part is for your
>
> mouse wheel
>
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  >>Any ideas on what to try next?  Opera in X without a scroll mouse is
>  >>like Windows claiming it's secure- it's just wrong :-(
>  >
>  > haha, I like this quote. :-)
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  > Jorn
>
> User & wrote:
>  > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:22, Scott W wrote:
>  >>Via PS2 and through the KVM, it appears there's nothing I've found yet
>  >>that will enable the wheel, although the wheel 'button' itself works.
>  >
>  > Are you sure that this part is located in your /etc/X11/XF86config
>  > file?:
>  >
>  > Section "InputDevice"
>  >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>  >         Driver      "mouse"
>  >         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>  >         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>  >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # This part is for your
>
> mouse wheel
>
>  > EndSection
>  >
>  >>Any ideas on what to try next?  Opera in X without a scroll mouse is
>  >>like Windows claiming it's secure- it's just wrong :-(
>  >
>  > haha, I like this quote. :-)
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  > Jorn
>
> Hi Jorn- yeah, I've played with the X Device section, as well as the
> flags to moused extensively, as well as not running moused, changing the
> button and then z-axis mappings, just in case this particular mouse
> wasn't actually seeing the scroll wheel as 'button 4'...all to no avail.
>
> Through the KVM emulation, it IDs the mouse as a MouseMan+, which works
> fine with the wheel under various RH and Linux variants on another
> system...I may wind up having to recompile the Linux kernel and/or
> modularize the mouse/PS2 driver and add some debugging to try to see if
> I can't figure this out....but of course most problems encountered have
> already been encountered by someone else, so was definitely hoping ;-)

I'm getting in late on this, but I have a wheel mouse, and a KVM.
I've installed the imwheel port.

I have this in XF86Config:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "SysMouse"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
	Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

and this in /etc/rc.conf:

moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-z 4"

and this in ~/.xinitrc:
/usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel

See the FAQ:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL

-- 
Thanks,
Charles
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