Problems with mouse scroll wheel

stevielawson · 01-08-2006, 09:38 AM

Hi, total Slackware newbie here looking for help. I've installed Slackware 10.2, set up Xorg.conf, installed Nvidia drivers and set up automatic graphical login and user - everything looks peachy, except my Microsoft USB 3-button mouse isn't scrolling with the middle button (but otherwise works fine). Here's the mouse section of my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.

# Option "Resolution" "256"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection

I'm new to editing conf files so I'm probably missing something really obvious.
So far I've tried entering "Microsoft" and, after doing some reading here, "IMPS/2" in the protocol section - no luck.
And I've also tried uncommenting "Emulate3Buttons" and also without the "yes" on Emulate3Buttons", but all have been unsuccessful.

If anyone can spot anything that might solve this I'd be very grateful - I'm really enjoying Slackware - it runs like lighnting - and learning how Linux works under the hood!
Cheers

phil.d.g · 01-08-2006, 10:04 AM

In that section you need

Code:

Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

A simple search on google would have given you this information

stevielawson · 01-08-2006, 10:10 AM

That didn't work, but thanks for the reply. (Google) point taken - I'll keep looking myself.

scrupul0us · 01-08-2006, 10:34 AM

i had to reboot after i edited mine for it to work

i also changed mine to be "IMPS/2"

stevielawson · 01-08-2006, 10:39 AM

Went into xorg.conf, changed "Protocol" from "IMPS/2" to "ExplorerPS/2" and mouse scroll wheel now works. Thanks to previous posters for suggestion.

scrupul0us · 01-08-2006, 10:40 AM

all that matters is that it works!

phil.d.g · 01-08-2006, 10:54 AM

I just assumed you were using a normal intellimouse wheel mouse as you said you changed your mouse protocol to IMPS/2, its my own fault for giving you an incomplete solution I should have specifically asked you for your mouse model

stevielawson · 01-08-2006, 10:57 AM

no problem - I should have looked at the bazillion other posts on the same subject. Anyway, problem solved and on to the next one.

keflavich · 02-24-2006, 10:35 AM

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ry/012689.html

I upgraded "everything" using swaret recently (that means I don't know specifically what I upgraded, I only know that it caused problems), and afterwards my old setup options in xorg.conf didn't work. I had to change from

Code:

    Option "Buttons" "7"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

to

Code:

        Option "Buttons" "5"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

.

The fix listed above worked just fine, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I was supposed to know that you're not supposed to use xmodmap any more and instead there use new ButtonMapping feature? Could I have done anything short of googling for a specific error as I did? All previous intellimouse fixes, including the ones I've found on this site, only have ZAxisMapping, no ButtonMapping. And the upgrade didn't really point me towards any documentation.

Thanks,
Adam