Re: Microsoft wheel mouse optical 1.1A USB support

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:50:20AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> yeah actually it's pretty easy basically you add a second mouse 
> configuration to your xf86config.

Aside: I know this was a Linux question, but under FreeBSD, you can also do
this using moused.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "SysMouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
EndSection

Then you run moused for the built-in mouse:

-su-2.05b$ grep mouse /etc/rc.conf
moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"

-su-2.05b$ ps auxwww | grep moused
root       118  0.0  0.2   908  272  ??  Ss   Wed08AM   4:52.76 moused -p
/dev/psm0 -t auto

When you insert a USB mouse, it starts a second moused process
automatically.

Using moused has the advantage that the mouse works for text consoles as
well as within X: just run

   vidcontrol -m on

and a cursor appears...

Cheers,

Brian.

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