mouse

[stinkoman]

ok, i have a wireless mouse that works fine, except the scroll wheel doesnt do anything. any suggestions?

[wowbag1]

Does it work at all at any time?
Has your system correctly identified the mouse and loaded any other driver if needed?

[stinkoman]

the mosue works, just not the scroll wheel, which hasnt worked since install (works on xp though) and i dunno about no drivrs

[Freston]

Well, you'll need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to tell X that you have a scrollwheel. Use your favorite editor to open xorg.conf and look for >Section InputDevice<
Add this line >Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<

So that it looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Restart X (ctrl+alt+backspace) and you're done

[stinkoman]

must b root to edit that right?

[Freston]

Oh yeah, and rightfully so. Better make a backup of the original file

xorg.conf is the configuration file for the X graphical environment. Messing it up leaves you with a machine that can't boot into graphics anymore. But as this maneuver is as easy as copy&paste you'll be fine.

[stinkoman]

i think it auto backups. i know it dos for fstab.