Microsoft Mouse /w Scroll Wheel

Atroxic · 02-10-2002, 01:18 AM

Is there a way to get the scroll wheel to work with a Microsoft Intellimouse on Redhat Linux 7.2?

-Atroxic

finegan · 02-10-2002, 07:25 AM

If you change this bit in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it should work:

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

It would be best to leave all of the other options the same.

Cheers,

Finegan

Atroxic · 02-10-2002, 11:24 AM

That didn't work.... Does it matter if it's a Intellimouse Optical?

-Atroxic

finegan · 02-10-2002, 12:18 PM

Yeah, that's the right protocol. It doesn't often work in older netscapes < 6, but works fine in Mozilla evidently. It shouldn't matter that it's optical. I got that info from mine (which is an old MS wheel mouse), by searching through the archives here and from about the third hit from google.

Hope one of those solves it,

Cheers,

Finegan

ryanstrayer · 02-10-2002, 06:09 PM

If you're using the USB-to-PS/2 converter on your laptop, try getting rid of that and plugging it directly into USB. That's what I had to do before it would work right.

taz.devil · 02-10-2002, 08:44 PM

Weirdalaboola....Say that three times and try again. Once you realise that didn't do anything

there is a standard readme in the kernel doc dir that may help. In RH7.2, the path should be something close to this;

/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/Documentation/input/input.txt OR
/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/Documentation/usb/input.txt

Also, make sure that the device isn't /dev/mouse but instead /dev/input/mice which is also spoken about in the readme.

mjrich · 06-13-2002, 03:14 PM

You may also need to change the 'buttons' option. Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see whether the default number of buttons have been selected (usually 3) as you will need to register 5 buttons to use the ZAxisMapping "45" option:

Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Cheers,

mjrich

finegan · 06-13-2002, 04:36 PM

Mj,

Its good to see someone new show up and drop in exactly the right answer. Just one thing though, this thread is four months old. Give us a hand at the top of Hardware.

Cheers,

Finegan