mouse wheel problems

Erik Steffl steffl at bigfoot.com
Tue Apr 22 17:27:58 PDT 2003


Chris Moline wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:27, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> 
>>I recently got my wheel mouse working using almost the exact same setup
>>as you, minus the ZAxisMapping directive in the XF86Config file.  Try
>>commenting out that line and then restarting X.
> 
> 
> ok. i commented out ZAxisMapping. i tried it twice with two XF86Configs
> looking like
> 
>     Identifier  "Mouse1" 
>     Driver      "mouse" 
>     Option      "Protocol"      "auto" 
>     Option      "Device"        "/dev/sysmouse" 
> #    Option     "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5" 
>     Option      "Buttons"       "5" 
> 
> with the above config i ran moused -p /dev/psm0 -z 4 -r high -a 2
> 
>     Identifier  "Mouse1" 
>     Driver      "mouse" 
>     Option      "Protocol"      "auto" 
>     Option      "Device"        "/dev/psm0" 
> #    Option     "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5" 
>     Option      "Buttons"       "5" 
> 
> with this config i ran killall moused.
> 
> in both configs the three buttons work fine but the wheels dont work.

   don't work in what way? did you try xev to see whwrher you're getting 
any events?

   you might have to try different protocols, I had troubles with that 
before... maybe auto is not good enough...

	erik



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