Can a scroll wheel work in Red Hat 8.0 Professional?

[Ed]

I have the 5-button optical Microsoft Intellimouse. It has a scroll wheel, and I was wondering if there was a way to make it work in things such as Konqueror to scroll down the page.

On a side note, this is my first post here and I plan to frequent this site from now on.

[Dolda2000]

Did you selected the correct mouse driver when you installed? If you don't select it as a wheel mouse, it won't use the wheel.
What distribution are you running?

[genlee]

    Option "ZAxisMapping"       "4 5"

Add that to your mouse section in you XF86Config and it will enable the mouse.

[Ed]

That code is already in XF86Config. The wheel acts as a button, but I still can't scroll with it. Also, this mouse will only work when I select a Generic driver, it won't accept the Microsoft drivers for some reason.

[genlee]

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping"       "4 5"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

That is my section for a 2 button ms mouse with wheel

[tithefug]

This has been a thing with RedHat since at least 7.0, but the important part in the config file is "IMPS/2", this is how I've had to fix it with every upgrade.

Dolda, not to nitpick, but he mentioned that he had RedHat in the subject line again!!

Tithefug

[Dolda2000]

Let's not be so picky, shall we? Like I said, noone looks in the subject line for important information anyway, right?

[majorwoo]

I dunno dolda, I know wassy does - he jumped all over me for a typo in one of them

[wassy121]

maybe in a topic type thing? I don't read the subject once on the "replies" page. I also called you on mispelling gentee on two different threads as well

[abacad]

This may help http://p-two.net/modules.php?op=modl...=article&sid=2