Using imwheel with Freebsd 6.1 and xorg 6.9.0_2

[Geoffrey Giesemann]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:05:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> Geoffrey Giesemann <geoffwa at cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:05:21AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > > The only problem you may run into is the IntelliMouse Explorer issue,
> > > where fast scrolling in a browser window may be misinterpreted as
> > > forward / backward history commands.
> > I get this issue with my Dell-branded USB mouse.
> >
> > Is there a workaround? (or altenately, what needs be to done to fix
> > this?)
> 
> Try using a USB to PS/2 adapter; moused(8) knows how to handle
> Explorer mice attached to the PS/2 port.
> 

Unfortunately the Dell workstation it's attached to doesn't have any
PS/2 ports.

> The correct way to fix this is to ditch ums(4) and teach moused(8) how
> to operate directly on a uhid(4) device, so we don't have to duplicate
> logic (and bugs, and bug fixes) in moused(8), psm(4) and ums(4).
> Jordan Sissel <psionic at csh.rit.edu> is working on this:
> 
> http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/newpsm

I tried pointing xorg at /dev/ums0 but the same problem crops up.
(although the mouse seems rather more sensitive now)

uhid(4) looks fairly nice, so I'll try down that avenue when I get the
time.

--Geoff