imwheel broke Intellimouse Explorer config!

jamespetts · 11-28-2004, 05:34 AM

I've got the Intellimouse Explorer, Mandrake 10.0. Before, I had the normal three buttons and scroll wheel working fine, but the thumb button didn't do anything, so I followed the advice at this website, only it didn't work for me, and, worse, it broke the scroll-wheel, which worked before (and it was still broken after apparently undoing all the modifications that I'd made).

I had initially changed my XF86Config-4 file from the default of

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

to what the website recommended, which was:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "IntelliMouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
        Option      "Buttons" "7"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

(I also changed the "server layout" section to accommodate the new identifier)

I had install and run imwheel without restarting X, and it worked (which of course meant that the default configuration was fine). I used the following imwheelrc:

Code:

   ".*"
   None, Up, Alt_L|Left
   None, Down, Alt_L|Right

However, I did not undo the changes in XF86Config-4. When I next restarted my computer (it's in my bedroom and loud, so I turn it off at night), the scroll wheel no longer worked. I later discovered that the scroll wheel would work when the middle button was depressed. When I ran imwheel (I had not yet put it into the KDE Autostart file), it began to behave most erratically, with the scroll wheel never working wtihout a button pressed, sometimes working with the middle or a thumb button depressed, but sometimes going backwards and forwards instead of scrolling. There even came a point when the left button stopped working properly.

All of this continued despite me restoring the original XF86Config-4 file (including "server layout"). Now, whether or not I run imwheel (or xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5") either manually or in my KDE autostart file, the problem described above occurs.

I am extremely confused, and I cannot comprehend what has gone wrong. Can anybody help me?

ilikejam · 11-29-2004, 05:17 AM

Hi.

Your XF86Config-4 section should look like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
        Option      "Buttons" "7"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

(the mouse0 identifier should be changed to suit your serverlayout)

Your ~/.imwheelrc should look like this

Code:

".*"
 None, Up, Alt_L|Left
 None, Down, Alt_L|Right

"(null)"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right

And you should run

Code:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
imwheel -k -b "67"

when KDE starts.

And that should work. Hopefully.

Dave

jamespetts · 12-04-2004, 02:38 PM

Thank you for your reply; I changed my config files to those settings, restarted, and I still have exactly the same problems as before. Any suggestions?

James E. Petts

ilikejam · 12-05-2004, 06:47 AM

What does the serverlayout part of XF86Config-4 look like?

jamespetts · 12-05-2004, 07:09 AM

Like this:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   #InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Screen "screen1"
    Screen "screen2" RightOf "screen1"
   #Option "Xinerama"
EndSection

jamespetts · 12-05-2004, 04:02 PM

Update: I have just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 Official (4 CD download ed.), and the problem is still there!

Although, I did notice when I was installing it, it appeared to work in the mouse setup dialogue of the install rouine.

I have checked, and the problem is also present in Gnome.

ilikejam · 12-07-2004, 10:42 AM

I'm not too familiar with Mandrake.

I'd completely remove imweel and all associated config files. I'd also restore the original XF86Config(-4) file, and start from scratch. I'm really not sure what the problem is.

Dave

jamespetts · 12-07-2004, 02:09 PM

No, neither am I. One of the config files is the imwheelrc file, which, presumably, does not have to be removed at all, since only imwheel will access it.

But, bizarrely, I had previously removed all references to imwheel in KDE's autostart, and reverted to my original XF86Config-4 file without any improvement in the symptoms, as described above.

Of course, now that I'm using 10.1, I'm no longer using XF86 at all, and am instead using X.org. I had hoped that that switch over might solve the problem, but it has had no effect.

Does anyone else have any ideas? This is of considerable conern to me.