Console ps2 mouse behavior control (was : Re: test)

[Dev Tugnait]

err my sleepy brain /etc/rc.cong should be set to no rather delete the Emualte3Buttons entry if you ahve one sorry about that jumbled it up 
* Dev Tugnait (dev at unixdaemon.org) wrote:
> Well hi firstly make sure /etc/rc.conf does set Emulate3Buttons=yes...YOu didnt specify what mouse you have...Auto works fine mos t of the time. If you wan mouse wheel add this to XF86Config
> 
>     Identifier  "Mouse1"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
>     Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
>     Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option Emulate3Buttons "no"
> 
> restart X this is just an example feel free to try it have fun :)
>  
> * Laurent Demaret (laurent.demaret at free.fr) wrote:
> > 
> > Le dimanche, 30 nov 2003, à 12:23 Europe/Paris, Dev Tugnait a écrit :
> > 
> > >its not quiet we are alive and kicking :)
> > Good, let's see if you can kick me out from my mess ;-/
> > 
> > My basic purpose is to give my children a so much nice place on their 
> > pc than my one on my mac.
> > Instead of their win98 ..
> > 
> > So  I rode lots of docs about freebsd (specialy handbook, faq, 
> > beginners), downloaded iso images of the 5.1release and started the 
> > install from cd.
> > Everythings were almost nice the first time (with learning, reading, 
> > understanding behind) so far I tried to add wheel mouse to my 
> > configuration.
> > It was a bad idea because the next time I started freebsd my rc.conf 
> > had a bad character (eof instead of backquote or whatever) on the 1456 
> > th line (of a 1455 lines file). Maybee because I made change with 
> > abiword ...
> > Before that time I had been able to set up a good configuration for my 
> > ps2 mouse and it worked fine inside kde and even in console mode.
> > 
> > Unable to make a new rc.conf from the bad one I made a new install of 
> > freebsd but probably not the good one as my kde taskbar don't have 
> > anymore direct to shell button. (I will have a look at that later).
> > 
> > The main trouble I have now is to stop stupid behavior of my mouse : as 
> > soon I move it too fast or move a couple pixels to left it refuges 
> > itself on left edge of the screen. Tried to control that from kde but 
> > did not get any amelioration. Kde mouse is set to sysmouse so I would 
> > like to get a correct mouse behavior from sysinstall test mouse dialog.
> > The best thing I can get now is with Microsoft IntelliMouse but pointer 
> > still go as quick as possible to left side of the screen, whichever 
> > protocol I use.
> > 
> > I tried many ways to come back the first time I setted, tried to 
> > remember the good words to ask google but at least get exausted : how 
> > to configure freebsd mouse focus (to the macos one) in console mode ?
> > 
> > "auto" give me the worse : each move of the mouse act as accept (or 
> > refuse ?) sysinstall dialog "Is the mouse cursor moving"
> > 
> > Hopefully
> > 
> > Laurent Demaret
> > 
> > -- 
> > laurent.demaret at freeNoSpam.fr
> > 
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