mouse wheel moves sideways

pavodive · 03-29-2005, 03:00 AM

Hi, I just have read so much about how to make the mouse wheel work that I'm getting crazy.

I have a "DELL by Microsoft" (well, that's what's written on it) mouse with two buttons and a wheel (yeah, that will make for 5 buttons). It's an Intellimouse PS/2 compatible.

My original /etc/X11/xorg.conf file read this in the relevant part:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

and after reading posts for half a day I added a Option "Buttons" "5" line just before the ZAxisMapping line, but it didn't help, not only the wheel wouldn't scroll, but also the pointer will move weird (it was like when passing over some parts of the screen the pointer will go at once to the extreme right of the screen).

After that I read another post and changed the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to this (this is the ONE I have NOW):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Buttons" "7"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
#	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

I also created the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse.sh
# Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

Although (btw, your light on this is highly appreciated) my mouse DOES NOT have 7 buttons, this seems to have solved the "weary" behavior of the pointer, but now the wheel will make the pointer to move sideways!!! instead of up and down

How can I fix it?? I'd appreciate your -very- detailed explanations, besides of begin a

I'm also eager to learn!!

G'd day to all!
PavoDive

PS: I'm running FC3 on a DELL, dual boot with Windoze XP

__J · 03-29-2005, 03:58 AM

change the ZAxisMapping "6 7" back to "4 5"

"4 5" is for up/down

theYinYeti · 03-29-2005, 03:59 AM

Hello,

I take it you configured your mouse properly, as your current configuration seems fine to me (although it actually depends on the exact model).

So, IMHO, something is interfering. I can't begin to imagine how the ZAxis can translate to mouse mouvements, except if this axis gets translated somewhere else, or if the "Buttons" configuration line has side-effects, that I did not know about.

Do you have gpm, or imwheel, or anything mouse-related running? If so, try temporarily disabling them to see. If not... I don't know, maybe an event-grabber tool...

Yves.

pavodive · 03-29-2005, 05:21 AM

I changed back to "4 5" as you suggested, but still is moving sideways

I also ended the gpm process, just the same, sideways <--->

I don't know if this may become a hint, but as an interesting thing, it doesn't matter if I roll the wheel forward or backward, the pointer always move to the right.

Any other idea?

Tks.

theYinYeti · 03-30-2005, 12:39 AM

It looks to me, that you may be using the wrong driver. Did you try other drivers?

Yves.