How To Enable SCROLL Wheel

[vitoal]

Hello,

I am using Red Hat Linux 7.3 and I have trouble making the scroll wheel on my Microsoft Intelimouse Section "InputDevice"

work. It is a USB mouse but is plugged in via USB to PS/2 connector.

Here is the content of my XF86Config-4 file

Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Thank you very much!

[Dillinger]

Try changing the protocol to IMPS/2.

[vitoal]

Thank you very much for your advice. I switched protocol from PS/2 to IMPS/2 and it worked.

Thank you again, but what does IMPS stand for?

[Dillinger]

The IM stands for Intelimouse, the PS stands for... I'm not exactly sure.

[Allblack]

I have a related question,

My scroll button works but not as a scroll button. I think it is very useful to scroll through pdf documents and webpages. How do I make it scroll rather than having it function as a button?

[Dillinger]

What kind of mouse is it, and could you post the same section of your XF86Config?

[Allblack]

It's a MS PS2 intelli mouse. When I click/move my scroll button it takes me back to a previous page rather than scrolling down.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

[Dillinger]

You need to ad this: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

[Spechal]

I am running FC5 with a HP optical 2 button scroll wheel mouse.

All but one thing is working ... when you click the wheel down, instead of getting the 4-way scrolling, it takes you to a random page. Sometimes it is orielly.com, sometimes it is google, sometimes it the previous page.

Here is part of my xorg.conf -- any help would be greatly appreciated.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection