MS Intellimouse and XFree86

[Malcolm Kay]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 07:06, Reid Linnemann wrote:
> Okay, so here's the skinny:
>
> I have a 3-button mouse with Z axis (wheel) that behaves as a PS/2
> intellimouse.
>
> Running moused -f -p /dev/psm0 shows Z axis events reported when I use the
> wheel.
>
> However, in X using /dev/sysmouse as the mouse device, no Z axis events
> make it through. This is confirmed by running xev(8) and spinning the
> mousewheel in the window. No events are printed.
>
> This seems to me as an error in either the sysmouse driver or in the
> XFree86 mouse handling of the sysmouse driver, I really can only make wild
> guesses.. but those seem to me to be reasonable. Does anyone have any
> thoughts?
>

Pointer section in XF86config:-
=======================
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "auto"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option "Buttons"     "5"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Malcolm