logitech optical mouseman - the wheel doesn't work
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logitech optical mouseman - the wheel doesn't work
i have a wheel mouse from logitech, but the wheel does not work *g*
i tried different settings an then i killed my mouse so it was wild clicking arround an i had to reconfig my X-Window hehe. anyone who knows help? i is very annoying to scroll the websites that are long with my whole hand :/
they may be in any order, but the important ones are the protocol, buttons and ZAxisMapping. basically, you tell the system that scrolling the wheel up = button 4 and down = button 5.
hm no i don't think so, i only use this logitech mouse and that's it so you mean i should instead of adding the entry editing the existing mouse0 entry?
well, you've got 2 mice configured, a normal PS/2 mouse (mouse0) and the logitech (mouse1). if you only use the one, i would comment out the first entry. i found that my mouse worked fine under the old settings, but the wheel only activate when i used the IMPS/2 protocol.
there should be a way to select which mouse to use, but unfortunately i don't know how, so if you figure it out let me know - it's often worth having a second, normal mouse configured in case USB goes down, or the batteries die.
hm a showed it a friend of minw who is using gentoo and he said that the /dev/mouse wouldn't work and i should use /dev/psaux instead.. and now i am really confused
Gentoo uses DevFS, RedHat uses actual devices (IIRC) so it's up to you which one to use, I actually use:
/dev/input/mice
To find one you like, try this:
cat /dev/mouse
And move your mouse around. If characters pop up, you are probably good to go. Now try cat /dev/psaux and see if characters pop up, if both work, you can probably use both, and see which one works better (if either) for you.
i go to the terminal and type cat /dev/mouse and nothing happens...
so i close this terminal and open a new one and type in cat /dev/psaux and .. nothing happens...
in both cases i was moving my mouse around
I don't get anything from /dev/psaux, but from /dev/mouse I do Feel free to try that with other devices as well, check /dev/input and give a few of those a try.
yes i am logged in as root, otherwise i would not have been able to change the X86Config file
but what confuses me, the mous0 worked with psaux but when i make this cat thing in the terminal like you told me, nothing happens.. and anywhere do caharcters pop-up (whatever this means )
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