Making the 'wheel' work on mice

[exploder]

I am running Debain Sarge 3.1 on my pc and I use Logitec LX700 cordless desktop.
Everything works fine except the wheel on top of the mouse, it doesn't work at all!
It is a bit pain ful when I visit a website which had a long web page it is irritating to
use the scroll bars.

Does any know how to make the mouse wheel working?

[dylunio]

You'll need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

In the file there is an area devoted to the mouse, looking something like this:

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"

to that add a line saying

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

and then restart X, and your scroll wheel will hopefuly work.

[exploder]

Interestingly when i went to /etc/XFreeConfig-4 the line Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
is already there!! Is there any other way I can make it work?

[dylunio]

Cans you post the whole part regarding the mouse in the XFreeConfig-4 file here please?

[brother_mick]

Here is the mouse section from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Note the Protocol is set to "ImPS/2" . I belive that is the correct one for a wheel mouse.

Hope that helps you.

[genesus]

depending on the type of mouse you may have to use "6 7", also, make sure that you restartx after trying any changes...

[exploder]

This is the config my XFree86Config-4 has:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection