Re: Scroll Wheel
I have an identical mouse to yours, and an identical setup, except that I
am running the mouse through the USB port directly. I have had the same
problem, of having no wheel support enabled. I have exactly duplicated
the configuration you give below, but it does not work for me. In particular,
my mouse works with the PS/2 protocol, and switching it to ExporerPS/2 causes
it to fail badly, in the manner which a mis-selected protocol usually fails
(although it works approximately if the mouse movements are kept very small).
If I switch back to PS/2, the wheel does not function.
Is there anything else you have done to enable wheel support?
> I have the Microsoft Optical Intellimouse (using the USB-to-PS/2 adapter
> so as not to use up one of my two USB ports) with a wheel plus side
> buttons; the logic should be quite similar for your mouse.
>
> I run sid, not woody, but I doubt it makes any difference, since we're
> both using XFree86 4.0.3.
>
> Basically, the wheel button on the Microsoft mouse maps to buttons 2
> (press the wheel), 6 (wheel scroll up) and 7 (wheel scroll down). So
> you just configure XFree86 accordingly. I also had to get rid of gpm to
> make it work right, though recent posts to this list have shown ways to
> get gpm to cooperate.
>
> Here's how my mouse is defined in XF86Config-4:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Buttons" "7"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> EndSection
>
> For your mouse, lacking the side buttons of the IntelliMouse, you
> would presumably change "Buttons" to 5 and change the ZAxisMapping
> to "4 5".
>
> Craig
>
>
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