Ahh! Thanks! Which port would you recommend for xorg7? It's not in devel or x11. I have 6.9 running now, and the install did go smoothly, so I'm willing to try a 7 install.
Having all of these buttons work properly is probably the last step I would need to make a full and confortable switch completely from Windows to BSD :-) thanks, -Jim On 5/19/06, Marshall Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim, I was catching up on my freebsd lists, and saw this... Note that you can't use evdev unless you're using Xorg 7, as far as I know. Once you're on xorg7, you can use evdev as the driver for your mouse, and things Should Just Work. See this guide: http://floam.sh.nu/guides/mx1000 HTH, Marshall On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I have IMWheel installed and setup, and below is the mouse setting for > my xorg.conf file, however. Buttons 1-7 work just perfectly, however, > 8 mimics the wheel-down, and 9 and 10 refuse to do anything, no > matther what I do with imwheel or the utility that lets me remap the > buttons > > Oh, and I was wrong in an earlier post, it isn't the driver that they > posted and I couldn't use, it was the protocol (ignore my terminology, > and not the sample mouse-config part with "evdev" in it). > > current mouse section of xorg.conf > ======================================== > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > Option "Buttons" "10" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > ======================================== > > ~/.imwheelrc > ======================================== > none, Thumb1, Alt_R|Left > none, Thumb2, Alt_R|Right > none, Left, Alt_R|Left > none, Right, Alt_R|Right > ======================================== > > ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc > ======================================== > exec startkde > imwheel -k -b "6789" & > ======================================== > > > I've tried using every variant of xmodmap that I could to alter the > mapping of 6-10, however, nothing gets buttons other than 6 and 7 to > work properly, and one of the others (I suspect it's 8) to mimic a > completely different button. Unfortunately, button 7 is the only > button that I don't like usin gon this mouse (hard to twist my hand to > press it). > > By "not work properly", I mean that in any mapping other than the > default, (except reversing 6 and 7) with xmodmap, the buttons either > do nothing (normally), or act in a manner not previously specifice > (usually by mimicking a scroll up or down button). Mapping 9 and 10 > into the place of 6 and 7 (i.e. ' xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 > 8 6 7" ' or ' xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 6 7 8" ') ensures > that no buttons beyond 5 work. > > I strongly suspect that signals from buttons 8-10 aren't reaching the > software that handles them properly. 8 is either being misread or sent > wrong, 9 and 10 appear to simply be dropped. > > Thanks, > -Jim > > > > > > On 3/31/06, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Stapleton wrote: >> >>> Aye, it's got a lot of buttons, and I've tried transferring >>> several of >>> the config settings, however, none of the drivers they pointed to >>> seem >>> to exist in BSD, and they also pointed to devices, again nonexistant >>> in bsd. >>> >>> example, one involves the following: >>> >>> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" >>> Option "Protocol" "evdev" >>> >>> >>> If I try to use evdev, x refuses to start, and says said module does >>> not exist in the log file. The other variants I've seen have similar >>> modules that I can't find and won't load. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Jim >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/31/06, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:13:49 -0500 >>>> "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and >>>>> this site, but I couldn't find any useful information on >>>>> getting my >>>>> MX518 working with all of it's buttons in BSD (were I to downgrade >>>>> back to Linux, I could, but I'd rather not do that, ports is >>>>> much more >>>>> useful than the extra three buttons). >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Hey Jim >>>> i suppose this is a logitech mouse with lots of buttons? if you >>>> know it >>>> works with linux, why not transfer the config from linux to >>>> freebsd? (u >>>> dont need to install anything, just try knoppix). It should work >>>> out of >>>> the box (I believe moused is same across platforms, and xorg >>>> shouldn't >>>> worry too much about what OS it's being used under). >>>> >>>> otherwise, have u read man moused ? >>>> >>>> beto >>>> >> Many people in Linux (at least), use imwheel for utilizing all >> mouse >> buttons on their mice, unless they use an internal X program to >> set the >> values for 'key strokes' obtained from the mouse by themselves >> (kind of >> a royal pain, if you ask me). Try searching for "imwheel gentoo" on >> google if imwheel's included in ports (don't have my FreeBSD >> machine in >> front of me right now to verify). >> Also, if you're looking for the codes for your mouse's >> buttons, try >> using xev. >> -Garrett >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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