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...

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

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.