Sorry I have searched the forum and everything I have tried doesnt work. I have an intellimouse USB port wireless 5 button scroll mouse and it will move up and down but not side to side. Nor will the buttons or scroll work. This is the only problem I couldnt fix on my own. This Slackware is something else every one told me a Slackware install was as freindly as a coiled rattle snake B.S. This was one of the easiest most straight forward installs I have ever done. Thanks in advance for any help Goodbye Overclockix hello Slackware 9.1 Roosofallevil

Hey roosofallevil,

I am not very much familiar with Slackware. My suggestion is to download an ISO-Image of Knoppix (ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/) and to see if Knoppix finds your mouse correctly (it normally should. If not you may enter the cheatcode knoppix wheelmouse). In case of success, check the contents of the file /etc/X11/X86FXfree86.config-4 (I am not 100% sure about the path since I write this from work. Furthermore it may not be -4 in Slack).
If you got a windows installation too you may of course check if the mouse works there okay.

Good luck,
Stephan

IMHO, you should check your /etc/X11/X86FXfree86.config-4 file as suggested by gromer. Look for a section InputDevice. Find which one your mouse device is (i think it must be /dev/mouse as usual) and edit the protocol from PS/2 to IMPS/2. Also add this line (below the mouse protocol or somewhere else within that section):
Then restart the X server : # killall X

sorry, those prolly don´t help. I had the same problem with slack and the only solution i came up with was to rebuild the kernel with built-in support for usb hid devices. if they were loaded as a module, they didn´t work with that particular mouse.

so, follow the sticky kernel rebuild guide and change usb settings.

-Peve

Linux: Five Button Mouse.

Hope this helps.

I use gentoo as linux distribution,. but I'm pretty sure that my solution can work. First your device section of /etc/X11/XF86config must be:

Section "InputDevice"


Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxismapping" "6 7"


EndSection

You must install imwheel :
http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/

and I you $HOME/.xinitrc (if you launch your X server with startx, or you can add this to your starting script for your X session manager:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
imwheel -k -b "67" &

Finaly, In $HOME/.imwheelrc :

"(null)"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left ,1
None, Down, Alt_L|Right ,1

"^Mozilla.*"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left ,1
None, Down, Alt_L|Right ,1

(itś work with firefox browser)

Good luck!

Thanks I am going to try these ideas saturday thats about the next time I will have time Thank You all foe the help roosofallevil

For the sake of people who come accross this discussion looking for an answer:

I had this same problem with debian. My solution was to remove the usbmouse module from my modules list (/etc/modules on debian). I guess the mouse is detected through either the evdev module or the mousedev module as well, so the faulty usbmouse module is not needed.

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XF86config mouse sexn try
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" or "Auto" instead of IMPS/2
Option "Device" "dev/mouse" or /dev/input/mice or /dev/input/mouse
and in /etc/X11/Xmodmap:
pointer = 1236745
For 2buttons and wheel Buttons wd be "5" and ZAxi.. wd be "4 5"