Mouse Scrolling While Using GPM

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Dear Forum,

I have a scroll mouse that I'm trying to get to work with X. I did a search and found that I had to have the zmapping line set in XF86Config file. After making the necessary adjustments, I still can't scroll. A friend at school told me that if I'm using gpm, which I am, that I might have to set the repeater option for gpm to send input to the X server's fifo. What do I have to do? I have a memorex laser scroll mouse, the mouse works fine except the scrolling ability. GPM is installed and running b/c when I press ctrl + alt + F1 and move the mouse, I get a little block that represents the mouse cursor. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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[Dolda2000]

You don't have to do anything with GPM at least. However, could you post how you configured your mouse, ie. post that entire InputDevice section of your XF86Config?

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I have both the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files
in XF86Config there is no section labeled InputDevice so I pasted the section that is labeled Pointer

Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"

# For wheel support - can not be used with Emulate3Buttons
#
ZAxisMapping "4 5"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.
# Protocol "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice
# BaudRate 9600
# SampleRate 150

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
# Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 50

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
# ChordMiddle

EndSection

in the XF86Config-4 file there is a section named InputDevice and it is as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

From what I read, I believe that I have done this correctly, but I am more than capable of screwing it up. Did I do anything wrong?

Thanks for your help Dolda2000. You truly are a linux guru.

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[genlee]

What kind of mouse do you have? You can try changing "Protocol" to "IMPS/2"

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Yes, thank you! I changed the protocol to IMPS/2 in both XF86Config and XF86Config-4 and upon restarting X, the scrolling worked. Thank you so very much for your wisdom and patience.