Erratic scrolling wireless mouse

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My wireless usb mouse scrolls both directions when turning its wheel in one direction. No matter how many lines I set per scroll, it jumps and changes direction all in one turn of the wheel. It happens in every application with a scrollbar. Page Up and Page Down work smoothly so does clicking inside the scroll bar.

I get a
Code: 
unable to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory
during boot. From what I could find on this error my xorg.conf and rc.conf might contain pertinent information

From rc.conf:

Code: 
# Enable console mouse
moused_type="auto" 
moused_enable="YES"
 
Did you test the mouse on other systems? I had something similar once, the mouse's scroll-wheel was broken.
 
SirDice said:
Did you test the mouse on other systems? I had something similar once, the mouse's scroll-wheel was broken.
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Yes I did, SirDice. It doesn't seem to be a broken scroll-wheel issue.
 
pcbsd64 said:
thanks wblock. i commented the moused entries in rc.conf, but the scroll wheel still acts erratically.
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It eliminates one possibility. A lot of people have trouble with wireless mice. It's worth trying a specific protocol in the xorg.conf mouse settings, like Microsoft or Intellimouse instead of Auto. See mousedrv(4). Also note that if you are letting hal detect input devices, InputDevice sections in xorg.conf may be ignored.

If that doesn't do it, ask on the freebsd-usb mailing list.
 
For the time being I have swapped out my wireless usb keyboard and mouse for wired ps2, uncommented the moused entries in /etc/rc.conf and all is well with my scroll-wheel. My daughter stands to inhereit my wireless usb devices which work well on her linux mint debian edition.
Thank you both for your responses.
 
What brand is the wireless mouse? I have a Logitech mouse that acts weird when it's not setup. I need to attach it to a windows machine with the Logitech drivers and configure the mouse there before it's usable on FreeBSD.
 
The brand is iRocks.

I noticed a driver available on this link. I will try to use it to set the mouse up on my daughter's linux machine. I haven't seen a windows box since I retired.

Thanks for the tip, SirDice.
 
replacement input devices

When I swapped input devices with my daughter, I first tried using usb to ps2 adapters for both the mouse and keyboard but the keyboard didn't seem to work well so I plugged them both into usb ports. The mouse shows up in /var/log/messages:

Code: 
Mar 22 12:02:30 pcbsd64 kernel: ums1: <A4Tech USB Optical Mouse, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2> on usbus1

The keyboard doesn't show up anywhere. It is a grandtec flx-500u
it is one of those roll-up rubber keyboards with 85 keys (no 10-key number pad). It works for me because I hunt and peck (typing classes weren't offered when I went to school, 1953-1965).

I was able to get all the keys working on linux mint debian edition but some keys won't work on BSD.

I don't suppose there is any kind of driver for it. I was wondering if anyone had advice on configuring my system for this keyboard or should just replce it with a more common model.
 
Should I have made this post in the x.org section of the forum? Or should the entire thread be moved there?
 
I have moved it there. Now, if you could be persuaded to properly capitalize your posts (check the previous posts) we may be on to a winner here...
 
My apologies for all lower case

I have 4 shift keys on this bizaar keyboard and only one of them works. I will use it from now on.
 
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