[ale] SuSe and Scrollwheel

[Robert Heaven]

I ran into this recently myself and according to the Xfree86 web site:
Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" is what activates the scroll wheel.


On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:35, Adam Levenstein wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> Thanks--I managed to get it after fiddling for a while. It worked after
> I swapped my two mouse entries (my regular ball mouse and the optic).
> I'm still trying to configure the buttons, though--they seem to work
> funny under konqueror. I'll give Opera a shot tonight and see if that
> helps.
> 
> Adam
> 
> --- James Taylor <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> > These are my mouse settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config
> > 
> > I generally need to run sax2 from from runlevel 3 to get  it to set
> > up
> > the mouse properly, but hand editing always works.
> > 
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >   Driver       "mouse"
> >   Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
> >   Option       "Buttons" "5"
> >   Option       "Device" "/dev/pointer0"
> >   Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
> >   Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
> >   Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
> >   Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > 
> > James Taylor
> > The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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> > james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> > http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
> > 
> > >>> cleon42 at yahoo.com 2/10/2004 8:58:33 AM >>>
> > Yo all,
> > 
> > Last night I installed SuSe with KDE on my box--my first time with
> > this
> > distro, I've been a Slackware holdout for close to ten years.
> > 
> > I also have a MS optical mouse, which works just fine and dandy
> > except
> > for the friggin' scroll wheel, which doesn't do anything. I never
> > realized just how handy that little bugger was until I couldn't use
> > it
> > anymore. :P
> > 
> > The "Mouse settings" in Control Center don't seem to do the trick,
> > though it does recognize the wheel. (It has a "Mouse scroll wheel
> > lines
> > by" entry.)
> > 
> > Anyone have any idea how to get it working?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
> > P.S. I'd like to reconfigure the buttons on the side, too--in
> > Windoze,
> > one pushes a browser forward, the other back.
> > 
> > 
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