Why scroll wheel doesn't work in Netscape ?
 

Hello there,

I am using RH7.2 and Netscape Communicator 4.78. My wheel mouse works properly for all applications except for Netscape application whereby the scroll fucntion using wheel is not working. The wheel even works in Mozilla & Opera, but only not in Netscape. I had similar problem with old RH distribution as well.

Is there any solution to this problem, its kinda wiered that it works for all other applications. Could it be Netscape doesn't support it ?

Thanks for your time to answer !

Salman

hm... i'm not sure why but since it works for Mozilla and Opera, why don't u use those? apparently they're a lot more popular and give better performance.

check out the poll at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3&pagenumber=1

Info on netscrape 4.x and wheel mice here, you might need to edit the file for missing "\" at the end of some lines.

Re: Why scroll wheel doesn't work in Netscape ?
 

Re: Re: Why scroll wheel doesn't work in Netscape ?
 

Ok...a few questions first,
1; what type/brand of mouse do you have?
2; How does it interface with your motherboard, ps/2? usb? or what?
3; What version of X do you have?
4; What distro do you use?
5; What release of aforementioned distro?

please wait
 

please wait for some time as i have to find out all these technical details from some body else Just now i only knows that i have mouse of logitech company.

and what is aforementioned distro?

Scroll wheel WORKS with Netscape 6.2 !!!!
 

Got the answer from http://home.c2i.net/dark/My_Mozilla_FAQ.html#wheel

NS4 needed some additional tweaking to wheelscroll, but Mozilla scrolls like a dream if X is set up right. Here a setup for a PS/2 Logitech Pilot wheelmouse under XFree86 v.4.0.1 as found in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

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

Wheeling magic is done by the ZAxisMapping. If the mouse behaves erratic: Note the Protocol option.

It may seem "funny" but my scroll problem was fixed after i first logged in with GNOME and used Mozilla and then after i while switched back to KDE.

WEIRD BTUT TRUE!

Re: please wait
 

He means which company's software are you using? eg. Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, Suse, Slackware or some other?
and which version? eg. redhat 7.2? Mandrake 8.1? Slackware 8.0?

thank you BlueBerry
i changed my XF86Config-4 file same as u discribed. and mouse started working.

my wheel mouse also does not work anywhere. Do I do the same thing that you told alp_shah to do? I have a plain old PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse. Using Mandrake 8.1. thanks.

hi
i can't say confidently that same settings are required for ur mouse but u try by writting IMPS/2 in place of PS/2 in 'protocol' option in XF86config-4 file. like
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
i think this is the main setting and it should work for u also.

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logitech scroll mouse in Netscape
 

Going back to the top of this post... I have run into the same problem. For reason unknown my logitech scroll mouse does not scroll pages in Netscape. the scroll works everywhere else (mozilla, opera) and even works when changing Netscape preferences?

What version of netscape it is? Mine worked ok with 7 PR1, but I dumped it - really a waste of resourses still.