IMPS/2 for mouse-wheel not supported

John Oxley oxo at rucus.ru.ac.za
Tue May 18 09:42:26 PDT 2004


Here is an excerpt from my XF86Config

  Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
  Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

You may also want to include
  Option "Buttons" "5"


On Tue 2004-05-18 (16:23), Richard Bradley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a brand new Microsoft optical wheel mouse with a 'tilt wheel'.
> 
> It works as a 3-button mouse under X with:
> 
> 	Option      "Protocol"	"PS/2"
> 	Option      "Device"	"/dev/psm0"
> 
> but the wheel doesn't work (i.e. doesn't even show up in `xev`)
> 
> The X documentation:
> [ http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse6.html ]
> seems to suggest that I use either IMPS/2 or ExplorerPS/2, but both of these 
> fail with "Protocol not supported".
> 
> Does FreeBSD support "PS/2 mouse initialization" (which the above link says is 
> required for these protocols)? Is there a kernel module I need to enable 
> this?
> 
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> Rich
> 
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