Can't get Dell USB wheel mouse to work

cscott · 06-01-2004, 03:27 AM

Can someone please help me get my mouse to work with FreeBSD's latest version? I have a Dell Optical USB wheel mouse that I think is made my Logitech. It has the normal 2 buttons and a scroll wheel in the middle. I cannot get it to work with the "moused" command, or by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config and doing something like so:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier   "Mouse1"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Protocol    "Protocol" "auto"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/ums0"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "no" 
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

sysinstall doesn't install it correctly, and I don't know whether to use a device of "/dev/psm0", "/dev/ums0", "/dev/mouse", "/dev/sysmouse", or something else. I've tried them all and still no luck.

Should I use "auto" or something else for the protocol? Do I need to use imwheel? I've worked on this for days unsuccessfully trying recommendations I found by searching Google.

Stack · 06-01-2004, 01:48 PM

Quote:

ection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

cscott · 06-08-2004, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Stack
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

That does not work for me.

atheist · 06-11-2004, 03:53 PM

/dev/sysmouse, is that a Mandrake specific thing? Because I thought usb mice were located in /dev/input/mice. Anyways. I'm having the same problem, if you have any luck, please post your progress here. I'll do the same.

Stack · 06-11-2004, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by atheist
/dev/sysmouse, is that a Mandrake specific thing? Because I thought usb mice were located in /dev/input/mice. Anyways. I'm having the same problem, if you have any luck, please post your progress here. I'll do the same.

No it is a FreeBSD thing. Please try posting at freebsdforums.org you might run into someone who has had the same problem.

Alex Cavnar · 06-12-2004, 07:18 PM

Actually, you should look into /etc/usbd.conf

I'm not at my FreeBSD box right now, but you should configure moused to work through /etc/usbd.conf, not through /etc/rc.conf.

You may already have an example of how to use it in your file already. If not, try doing a Google For BSD search for "usbd.conf"+"wheel mouse" . You may find an example entry somewhere that will work for you.

If I can remember, I'll post the relevant section from my config file.

cscott · 06-13-2004, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Stack
No it is a FreeBSD thing. Please try posting at freebsdforums.org you might run into someone who has had the same problem.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll post there about the problem.

cscott · 06-13-2004, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex Cavnar
Actually, you should look into /etc/usbd.conf

I'm not at my FreeBSD box right now, but you should configure moused to work through /etc/usbd.conf, not through /etc/rc.conf.

You may already have an example of how to use it in your file already. If not, try doing a [url=http://www.google.com/bsd]Google For BSD search for "usbd.conf"+"wheel mouse" . You may find an example entry somewhere that will work for you.

If I can remember, I'll post the relevant section from my config file.

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Please post it. Any help is appreciated.

Alex Cavnar · 06-13-2004, 10:28 AM

Internet was down at the house last night, but I managed to find the same instructions at The FreeBSD Diary:

Add the appropriate lines to your /etc/rc.conf file:

Code:

moused_enable="NO"
moused_flags="/dev/ums0"
usbd_enable="YES"
usbd_flags="" (though I like -vv personally, just for the scroll factor)

Make sure your /etc/usbd.conf has these lines in it:

Code:

device "Mouse"
devname "ums[0-9]+"
attach "/usr/sbin/moused -z 4 -p /dev/${DEVNAME} -I
               /var/run/moused.${DEVNAME}.pid"

Restart, and your mouse should work. I added the -z 4 option to enable the mouse wheel.