Re: Make ums(4) present the mouse as a sysmouse type device by default

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :Indeed, ums provides a MOUSE_SETMODE ioctl for that.
> :
> :I've just stumbled upon an undocumented switch of moused, -l, which should let
> :the user force the level (mode) of the device. It appears neither in the man 
> :page, nor in usage. Anyway, I couldn't get it to work without problems: in 
> :level 0, moused displays an error about an unappropriate ioctl(), and in level 
> :1, the mouse is painfully slow in X.org.

are you sure that you are using the latest Xorg version from pkgsrc? 
There recently was a fix concerning moused.

> :I'm a little bit lost with all that: I can't get moused to work correctly with 
> :my mouse, and I have to modify ums(4) to use the right mode by default.
> :I guess I'll try to write a little oneliner to set it using ioctl(), which will
> :be loaded at startup...

moused works perfectly with my 3 button/wheel usb mouse here.  what does

	moused -d -f -p /dev/ums0

output?

>     See if that works and if it does and there is no equivalent moused
>     option, we can add a new option to moused to do the ioctl.  Or, rather,
>     if you make the modification to moused and submit the patch we'll commit
>     it.  I'd prefer that over changing the device driver's default mode.

definitely.  but i think moused should already support the best mode 
possible.

cheers
  simon

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