Re: Wheel Mouse

From: Bob (bamb_at_rogers.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:47:48 GMT

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 03:11:35 -0700, Praxis wrote:

> My problem is slightly different. I also had RH 8 and also upgraded to RH
> 9, but my PS/2 optical Logitech mouse was't quite recognized properly, but
> instead was described as a mere two button rodent, and hence, the wheel
> didn't work at all.
>
> I tried redhat-config-mouse and was able to get the system to at least
> acknowledge that I have a "Wheel Mouse (PS/2)", but unfortunately my scroll
> wheel only works in one direction, going down the page. I suppose that's
> better than nothing, but I'd like to be able to scroll both directions.
> Anyone have any suggestions? FWIW, here's what I deem to be the pertinant
> parts of /etc/x11/XF86Config:
>
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
> # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
> # also use USB mice at the same time.
> Identifier "DevInputMice"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> Thanks in advance for the insights,
>
> Praxis
>
>
>
> Toralf Jabs wrote:
>
>> Am Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:19:57 +0200 schrieb Toralf Jabs:
>>
>>> Am Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:05:30 +0200 schrieb Andreas Paasch:
>>>
>>>> Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>>
>>>>> Identifier "Mouse0"
>>>>> Driver "mouse"
>>>>> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>>>>> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
>>>>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>>>>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>> Identifier "Mouse1"
>>>>> Driver "mouse"
>>>>> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>>>> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>>>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>>>>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>>>> EndSection
>>>>>
>>
>> to be correct:
>> my conf which works:
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier "Default Layout"
>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> Identifier "Mouse0"
>> Driver "mouse"
>> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>> EndSection
>>
>> thats it :-)
>>
>> works in KDE, gnome and WindowMaker(my preferred WM)
>>
>> Toralf
I take it you didn't get a reply to your problem?
I have the same XF86Config layout and I'm running Red Hat 9 on an IBM
770ED laptop. So I thought your solution would be my solution. 

-- 
Regards,
	Bob