[Sussex] Suse 9.1

[Stephen Williams]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:31 +0000, John D. wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 11:49 +0000, Angelo Servini wrote:
> <snip>
> > One question though.  I use a kingston cordless optical wheel mouse.
> > Though I selected the option in YAST for an intelli/wheel mouse, the
> > wheel part of my mouse is not recognised.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> </snip>
> 
> Angelo,
> 
> this is a quote from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> [quote]
> # **********************************************************************
> # Core Pointer's InputDevice section
> # **********************************************************************
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> # Identifier and driver
> 
> Identifier	"Mouse1"
> Driver	"mouse"
> Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
> Option "ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
> # Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.
> 
> #    Option "Resolution"	"256"
> [/quote]
> 

This on it's own won't get your mouse wheel working. You'll need to run:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

to do so. To avoid having to type it in, add it as a line to your x
window manager start up script.



> The non-scrolling scroll wheel trick I usually have to use (Logitech
> Cordless Mouseman Optical) is to add the "ZAxisMapping" line (or
> uncomment if it's not there).
> 
> And yes I've tried selecting the various options for my mouse, but
> usually end up going for the options listed above and things work fine.
> 
> I suppose I should really looking into checking if there's anything else
> I could do to improve my config (maybe the protocol option etc etc), but
> all the time it's doing what I want I'm not sure if theres any point.
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
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