having trouble configuring optical wheel PS/2 mouse in FreeBSD 6.0

asilentmurmur · 03-16-2006, 08:27 PM

Hello everyone,

before I ask my question id like to thank cnjohnson for helping with my previous question about installing FreeBSD on a SATA harddrive. I was able to get the OS to install. I only have one problem, I am having trouble getting the OS to recognize my optical wheel mouse. I tried setting the mouse type and port as Auto and just went along with setting all the configs as auto but still I could not get the mouse daemon to work. My mouse is a PS/2 mouse. Does anyone have any idea how i should go about doing this?

reddazz · 03-16-2006, 08:33 PM

In the mouse section of your /etc/X11/xorg.config, make sure you have the following

Code:

Option "Protocol"    "Sysmouse"
Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping"       "4 5"

primo · 03-17-2006, 01:46 AM

You may also need to add these lines to /etc/rc.conf to virtualize the mouse and use it on the terminal. These were mandatory for me to enable scrolling on my PS/2 mouse.

Code:

moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-l 2"

aditya1 · 03-18-2006, 01:48 PM

i had prob configuring my asus' optical USB mouse
can smbdy plz help