Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:52, Peter Billson wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
> > Rats! I've never had a wheel working under linux, and I was following
> > this thread sure the solution would be revealed...
>
> Richard,
>   To make the wheel work under X change your /etc/X11/XF86Config file so
> that the line in the Pointer section that now reads:
>    Protocol        "ps/2"
>
> change it to:
>    Protocol        "imps/2"
>
>
> And restart X

Embarassingly easy.  Thanks.  I suppose I was being a bit wet about that 
little problem because I didn't care much -- truth is I never used a wheel 
mouse at all before.  Still, it is quite neat.  Might get to quite like it. 
So, thanks again.

-- 
richard