Re: Wheel Mouse

[Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com>]

Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:57 pm, Krikket wrote:
> Folks, this is something that I've done before, but something is different
> this time around that has me stumped.
>
> Usually to get a the wheel on a mouse to run, it's just a matter of adding
> one line.  Only in this case, the line is already there.
>
> And for some reason that I don't understand, the mouse is defined *twice*
> in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>
> Here's what I have:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
>
>
> If I comment out either one of them, kdm refuses to start.  (Well, it does
> start, as far as I can tell, it just doesn't give me a GUI.)  Commening
> out the "Emulate3Buttons" in both of them has no effect.  (I seem to
> remember that it conflicts with the ZAxisMapping.)
>
> Any idea what's going on here?  This is a Sarge install using the Network
> install Beta 3 on 3/28/04.
>
> I'm thinking this is a bug in the installer, but I figured I'd check with
> you guys before filing a report.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Krikket