IMPS/2 for mouse-wheel not supported

[Richard Bradley]

> 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
> > 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".
> >
> >
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 5:42 pm, John Oxley wrote:
> 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"


I have tried "Protocol" as "Auto", but it had the same effect. I have also 
tried using `moused` and "/dev/sysmouse", in each case, everything works 
fine, except the mouse only has 3 buttons and no scroll. (I've tried the -z 
flag to moused as well)

This mouse is a replacement for another wheel mouse (different brand) which 
worked fine. Even when I didn't have "ZAxisMapping" set up, the wheel showed 
up as a button in `xev`.

Cheers,


Rich





> 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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