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My mouse is functioning near perfectly. In all other distros of Linux I've tried so far it's worked fine. In Windows it works fine.
However, in Slackware I have a problem. I cannot get the scrolling wheel to work at all.
The mouse section of my xorg.conf file is as follows:
Code:
# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.
# Option "Resolution" "256"
# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.
# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"
# Mouse wheel mapping. Default is to map vertical wheel to buttons 4 & 5,
# horizontal wheel to buttons 6 & 7. Change if your mouse has more than
# 3 buttons and you need to map the wheel to different button ids to avoid
# conflicts.
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
# Option "ChordMiddle"
EndSection
Please instruct me on how I would get the scroll working.
After some searching on this forum I see a lot of people are being told to use the imPS/2 or something like that protocol. Would this work with a Logitech USB mouse or is that only for a PS/2 mouse?
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