New machine, mouse scroll wheel not working

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Sep 6 04:22:21 PDT 2006


stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:

> I just set up a new 6 CURRENT machine with xorg, and KDE. The scroll wheel
> on my mouse does not seem to be scrolling anything.
>
> I have the follwinf lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 		Driver      "mouse"
> 		Option      "Protocol" "auto"
> 		Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> 		Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> The mose itself works OK, bith in X/KDE, and in the consoles.

More of an x.org question than FreeBSD.org, but you may not have that
many "buttons."  I'm not sure what would happen in that case; I assume
you've checked the X logs?

[I have just "4 5" for the ZAxisMapping parameter, for a simple
Compaq-branded wheel mouse.]

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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