Re: Mouse Wheel not working.

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Eric Dickner (<ejdickner@yahoo.com>) wrote:

> I am using XFree86, but I'm not sure if the problem
> isn't with the Debian (2.4.27) configuration.
> 
> Or is it a problem with how I've configured XFree?
> The KDE control center seems to think that the wheel
> is there and working fine.

You need to select a mouse protocol that supports mouse wheels. The PS/2
protocol does not, the IMPS/2 protocol does. You also need to configure
the ZAxisMapping option. If your mouse has three buttons, the mouse
section should look like this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

This is for a PS/2 mouse with a wheel and three buttons. You can edit
the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 manually, or run

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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