Hi Folks

I have a MS IM 4 and want to know if anybody knows how to get the tilting wheel to work.

I have read: w w w .linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=371672&perpage=15&pagenumber=2 but it obviously about a non tilt-wheel one.

Sorry had to take the link apart.

I reckon i would need 9 buttons instead of 7 and modify the xmodmap command.

The biggest Problem is figuring out a way to bind the two extra "buttons" that represent the tilt to a meaningfull command like scrolling horizontally or something to the like.

I'm new to Linux. Any help appreciated. Thanks a lot

I have been fiddlign with that as well, to little success as yet I am afraid. I believe someone in another thread mentioned it was probably software controlled button emulation, in which case it will require a vast amount more than just an xmodmap and adding 2 buttons. Though, I highly doubt it isn't possible as I have even found that SuSE comes with some packages for laptops which allow for adding to the number of mouse buttons/functions and the same with keyboards. So reasonably speaking, it should be possible, and possible to map all your special keyboard keys, as well. It is just a matter of how, and I am afraid I am not up to that task, as yet. I am too new to the linux scene, and worse, too inexperienced with its working. I also don't have the time for awhile to try and get enough info on it. But it is possible. This I know.

Hmm Noone got an idea?

I've been playing around with it and xev doesn't even recognize the buttons as opposed to the other seven. Could this be a limitation of the ExplorerPS/2 protocol? I have been playing with them when i was trying to get the 7 other buttons to work and found that for example with only the protocol changed to PS/2 only 3 of the 7 worked.

Could there be some specialized protocol that i could use for the task?

Though I have not tried it, there are not many Protocols with more than 7 buttons... but according to the 8D Scroll Mouse, you can map 4 buttons to "stick" or scroll wheel.
It may only work under the "IMPS/2" protocol. It is supposed to work with the serial and PS/2 port on supporting OSes.
It would be done simliar to normal, but the zaxismapping would be something like "4 5 6 7" rather than just "4 5".