MS Intellimouse Optical--No Wheel
Well, I just switched from Mandrake 9.1 to Slackware 9.0. I bought the boxed, 4-disk version. Other than a few frustrations because I am in new territory I am finding Slack to be way faster than MDK. KDE is running like Blackbox did on MDK. Okay, enough plugging Slack...
I have a Microsoft Itellimouse Optical USB mouse with 5 buttons. I edited my XFree86config file to what I thought should be the correct settings but the wheel won't work. Here is the Iput Device section of my config file: Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" So, ahh... What did I miss? Thanks, Ted. |
Change the line Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" to
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Also, if you change change the lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm that refer to /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice you'll have full functionality in the console too. munkeh P.S. For the console mouse tip, no need to reboot. Simply type /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm restart as woot! of course... |
Re: MS Intellimouse Optical--No Wheel
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That did the trick for me. |
Thanks for the replies. I will try the first suggestion. I tried changing the protocol to "IMPS/2" and X refused to boot. Hopefully this will do the trick.
Ted. |
Sorry, that didn't work either. Oh well.
Ted. |
Maybe that Option "Buttons" "5" is throwing you off.
What does it do if you comment out that line? And I'm pretty sure you'll need that IMPS/2 protocol. I have the: Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" My mouse is an old trekker wheel mouse. regards... |
OOPS... I just realized your mouse is USB.
That's a whole 'nother thing maybe... |
Take a look at these search results. Maybe you'll find an answer in there somewhere:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending |
Thanks everyone. Maybe someday I'll figure it out. I've been trying to get Slack to behave for 8 hours now. I need a break!
Have a good one, Ted. |
Hi,
Sorry yeah I totally forgot to advise changing the Protocol to IMPS/2 as itsjustme said. I too have a USB mouse which works with the IMPS/2 protocol. You can easily check to see whether you are getting any input from your mouse. If you type cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse around you should see some strange characters on the screen. If not, then check to see if /dev/input/mice is actually there. It should be as it was on my Slack 9 install by default. The other thing to check is that USB is working. You should have seen some messages about USB when your PC booted up, you can use dmesg | less to look through this again. Post the output of lsusb and lets take a look at whats there. Slack is very well behaved, once you know how to handle her ;-) |
Here is the output from lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical I also get the error message; Duplicate HUT Usage spec at line 2650 Unknown line at 1809. I don't know where to look to fix those errors. Thanks for hanging in there with me. I will try putting IMPS/2 back in the config and see what happens. Have a good one, Ted. |
YES! Thanks everyone. Your suggestions worked. The mousewheel is working fine now. Funny how things seem to work better after some sleep.
:) Have a good day, Ted. |
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