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curmudgeon42 08-13-2004 03:11 PM

mouse wheel not working
 
i have a Logitech USB Wheel mouse that i had a lot of trouble getting to work with Xorg X11. finally, after getting a USB-PS/2 converter thingy, and plugging the mouse into the PS/2 port, i was able to get X11 working with the mouse

in Windows (i dual boot), the mouse wheel works fine in scrolling through web pages, etc. but in Linux, both with Firefox and Konquerer so far, the mouse wheel is not working.

my /etc/xorg.conf mouse section is:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

what should i change to get the mouse wheel working?

Thanks,

~ Justin

SBing 08-13-2004 03:17 PM

Try adding:

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

before EndSection

Edit: b0uncer, only because I'm lazy and didn't type as much as you :)

b0uncer 08-13-2004 03:17 PM

try adding this line to your mouse config in the XOrg's config file you mentioned above:

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

so after you've done that, the section looks like this (I copied the other lines from your post):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

that should do the trick. restart your X and see..

EDIT: SBing, seems like you were quicker and did the job while I was only writing.. ;)

curmudgeon42 08-13-2004 04:13 PM

yeup that did it.

thanks!


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