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Re: mouse installed wrong



On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:40:00PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> snooker tb wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have installed woody and kde 3.04. When choosing the mouse there 
> >didn't seem to be a good pick for my generic wheel mouse. Now in KDE 
> >the mouse and two buttons work, but the wheel/click do not.
> >
> >How do I fix this, or where can I go to read about and fix. I searched 
> >the debian docs to no avail.
> >
> >bill
> >
> >
> >
> The relevant configuration file is /etc/X11/XF86Config, which you can 
> edit manually.
> 
> But you may be better off to run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and 
> this time 'round choose the IMPS/2 mouse.
> 
> You can also search the Debian mail list archives for "mouse" and/or 
> "wheel-mouse" etc.

You may also need a program called "imwheel" which basically
translates wheel motion into simulated presses of scrolling keys. I
can't remember if it's a Debian package or not, but if not try Google.

Pigeon



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