[GLLUG] mouse wheel

[Dylan M.]

it is a USB mouse.  it looks like i was just missing the:

        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons" "5"

added to XF86config, and my mouse wheel is a-rollin'

thanks
dylan

Matt Graham wrote:

>On Monday 31 March 2003 16:13, after a long battle with technology, 
>Dylan M. wrote:
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>>hrm, how do you get the mouse wheel to work?
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>>1) mouse drivers
>>2) XFree86
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>"mouse drivers" are a difficult thing to look at since there are 
>actually 2 of them:  The kernel-level modules responsible for 
>interpreting the raw data from the hardware, and the XFree86 mouse 
>protocol handlers.  You don't want to fool around with the kernel-level 
>modules; there are only 2 of these that are really important, the 
>module for the PS/2 port (typically compiled directly in), and the 
>module for USB Human Interface Devices (called hid, "modprobe hid".)
>
>The XFree86 protocol handlers are probably what you want to look at.  
>These are defined/used in /etc/X11/XF86Config like so:
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>Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier      "USBMouse"
>        Driver          "mouse"
># protocol handler defined below, most USB mice use the IMPS/2 protocol 
># unless they have more than 5 buttons
>        Option          "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>        Option          "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
># wheel typically generates events on buttons 4 and 5
>        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
>        Option          "Buttons" "5"
>EndSection
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>>3) windows manager
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>It's doubtful that the window manager does anything special/useful in 
>your case.  Which window manager are you using, anyway?
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>>its a microsoft "Wireless Optical Mouse Blue" (which seems to only
>>work well with the "explorer" drivers in X), running on slackware
>>8.1, kernel 2.4.20, XFree86 4.3.0, and blackbox 0.65.0
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>Aha.  Is this mouse PS/2 or USB?  X 4.3 is still kind of beta; even 
>Gentoo is still using X 4.2.1 unless you bang on it.  If it's using the 
>explorer/PS2 protocol, that typically means it has more than 5 buttons.  
>Does it?  Could you post the relevant section from your 
>/etc/X11/XF86Config ?
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