Re: many-button mouse question

[Simon Hepburn <sth@blueyonder.co.uk>]

What happens if you comment out Emulate3buttons ? Why do you need emulation 
when you have the real thing ? 

Jeff Maxson wrote:

> I really hate to bring this age-old question up again ("how do you
> activate the wheel on a mouse"), and I have checked the archives on this
> and tried most things I can think of, but can't get it.  Here's the deal:
>
> I have (what it says is) an IBM Model MO02W mouse.  There are the normal
> buttons (left, middle with wheel and click, and right), as well as three
> more on the left side of the mouse.  the left, right, and "3-button
> emulate" work fine, so I can manage as is, but would like to figure out
> the  wheel thing.  Given my XF86Config-4 (relevant section below),
> rolling the wheel up makes the pointer go up very fast, and rolling the
> wheel down makes it go up (yes up) very slowly.  All the left-side extra
> buttons make the pointer go up upon clicking as well as releasing (two
> up-jumps per press/release cycle).
>
> I have tried adding the Option "Buttons" # command, as well as various
> combinations of numbers for ZAxisMapping, and nothing changes.  Any help?
>
>  ---------------
> Section "InputDevice"
> # Identifier and driver
>     Identifier	"Mouse1"
>     Driver	"mouse"
>     Option "Protocol"    "Microsoft"
>     Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
> # Jeff is adding the next line to try activate the scroll wheel
>     Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option "Emulate3Buttons"
> #    Option "ChordMiddle"
> EndSection
> --------------

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Simon Hepburn.