On Friday 16 January 2004 08:49 am, Slabbert, C. (Clinton) wrote: > Hello, > > I recently purchased a new PS/2 optical mouse. I can't seem to get it > working under X. On Debian and Slackware I use: > Protocol auto or ImPS/2 > and it works fine. > > Under FreeBSD nothing seems to work, auto, Microsoft, PS/2, etc. and there > is no ImPS/2 option. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Clinton
My optical mouse with the scroll wheel works fine. It's a USB mouse connected to the PS/2 port using an adapter. First, configure the mouse. As root: 1. Execute '/stand/sysinstall' 2. Select "Index" 3. Select "Device, Mouse" and click on "OK" 4. Select "2 Enable Test and run the mouse daemon". If your mouse works, exit this menu and then exit the sysinstall program. 5. If the mouse doesn't work, play with options 3 ("Select mouse protocol type") and 4 ("Select mouse port") and then test the mouse again. After the mouse is properly configured in the system, edit the mouse section of your X configuration file using "/dev/sysmouse". Here's the section from my /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" EndSection I hope this helps, Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"