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Old 12-11-2002, 04:10 PM   #1
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4 button, mouse wheel USB mouse


I have a Micro Innovation optical USB mouse with 4 buttons and one wheel on it. Anyway Im no so much interested in the buttons as I am the wheel... I changed the PS/2 to IMPS/2 in two files and still no wheel worky

I have two similar files which one do I edit
XF86Config
or
XF86Config_4 ?
 
Old 12-11-2002, 04:15 PM   #2
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That depends on which version of X you're running. To find out which file to edit, take a look at your X logs in /var/logs. At the beginning of each file, there should be a line like the one below:
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(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
 
  


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