Getting mousewheel to work?

Hnefi · 02-20-2007, 10:18 AM

Hello.

I'm running Slackware 11 with KDE, and most things work rather well. However, my mousewheel doesn't work. It's a first generation USB Microsoft Intellmouse. Do I need special drivers for it or do I just need to tweak some settings? If so, where should I look for said drivers and/or settings?

bird603568 · 02-20-2007, 10:37 AM

you need this in xorg.conf

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

tronayne · 02-20-2007, 10:40 AM

You should probably have a symbolic link:

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-02-20 00:46 /dev/mouse -> /dev/input/mice

And your /etc/X11/xorg.conf will have something like this in it:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Shut down X, restart it, and you may have joy today.

spaceballs · 02-20-2007, 10:58 AM

It is easy to get the wheel working north and south. I have one of the mouse wheels that can also go left or right if you push the whele one way or the other. How do you get that one to worl?

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-20-2007, 02:22 PM

run 'xorgsetup' as root

bird603568 · 02-20-2007, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

run 'xorgsetup' as root

unless it has changed xorgsetup/xorgconfig/whatever will not get your scroll wheel working. you have to manually edit xorg.conf and add it

spaceballs · 02-20-2007, 06:10 PM

What about side to side scrolling? Is there a YAxisMapping?

Hnefi · 02-22-2007, 07:12 AM

Well, adding the ZAxisMapping line didn't work. Any other possibilities?

spaceballs · 02-22-2007, 08:31 AM

Try just ZAxisMapping "4 5" That is what I have.

raska · 02-22-2007, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hnefi

Well, adding the ZAxisMapping line didn't work. Any other possibilities?

You need the IMPS/2 protocol for a 5 button mouse, which is the minimum to have a working scroll wheel. Then you will need the Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" line for the scroll to work.

The ExplorerPS/2 protocol is for 7 button mice, which is the one that serves me

Hnefi · 02-23-2007, 09:01 AM

Ah, well I didn't have that. I'll try that too.

Thanks for your help.

simcox1 · 02-23-2007, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spaceballs

What about side to side scrolling? Is there a YAxisMapping?

I've never worked out how to get horizontal scrolling. There are xorg.conf options for XAxisMapping and YAxisMapping, and you can also specify 4 numbers with ZAxisMapping ie

Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7

The first two numbers correspond to up and down wheel, and the second two to left and right motion. But up to now I haven't got it to work. Using a 2.4 kernel.

raska · 02-23-2007, 04:27 PM

Give those extra buttons some use then!
IMWheel allows you to bind keyboard shortcuts into mouse buttons, i.e. I got kompose and kommando in the mouse side buttons

pretty neat stuff.

note: I think kompose and kommando only would work under KDE, they won't on XFCE and I don't know for Gnome