Configuring Mouse

**Zeratul** · 04-23-2005

I am running Slackware 9.1.0

Can any one tell me how to configure a ps2 mouse so that i can use the scrollling button

**darklordsatan** · 04-23-2005

If you have xorg, then open xorg.conf file, and add the following line

Code:

Option "ZAxis Mapping" "4 5"

right below this line that should be there

Code:

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

The 4 in the ZAxis Mapping means scrolling up, and 5, well, scrolling down...

IIRC, the xorg.conf is located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

**budman7** · 04-23-2005

edit the xorg.conf file

Code:

nano -w /etc/X11xorg.conf

Go to the Input Devices Section, look for the core pointer. Add this line

Code:

"ZAxixmapping 4 5"

with the quotation marks

Hope this helps.

**gimp335** · 04-24-2005

Code:

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

**puntmuts** · 04-24-2005

Originally Posted by budman7

edit the xorg.conf file

Code:

nano -w /etc/X11xorg.conf

XFree86 not X.org

So that would be /etc/X11/XF86Config

**budman7** · 04-24-2005

When I want to edit my xorg.conf file in Slackware, that is how I do it.

Actually I use vi, so I type as su

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and make my changes.

**puntmuts** · 04-24-2005

The point is that Slack 9.1 comes with XFree86 not X.org .

**budman7** · 04-24-2005

I didn't know that 9.1 uses Xfree86. Thanks for the correction.

**puntmuts** · 04-24-2005

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It's okay

X.org does not exist very long, it was a fork of XFree86 before the XFree86 team decided to change the licence. That was short before the 4.4.0 release IIRC. Slackware 9.1 was released before this fork, it was shipped with XFree86 4.3.0 .
[/offtopic]

**darklordsatan** · 04-24-2005

Originally Posted by puntmuts

[offtopic]
X.org does not exist very long
[/offtopic]

Do you mean that it wont exist for long, or that its recent

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