[plug] mouse wont work under X

[Rob Dunne]

Hi,
   yes that did it. As you guessed -- its an older mouse with a
square connector and an older version of XF86 (RH7.1) -- but it all works 
now
					thanks
					rob

Cameron Patrick writes:
 > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:31:49PM +1000, Rob Dunne wrote:
 > 
 > |  > From the ZAxisMapping 4 5 line sounds like you have a wheel mouse and
 > |  > the wheel is the middle button.. shouldn't the protocol be IMPS/2?
 > 
 > | yes -- its a wheel in the middle mouse
 > | but setting the protocol to IMPS/2 sends it crazy
 > 
 > If it's an older serial mouse (i.e. squarish connector, rather than a
 > little round one), you could try protocol "IntelliMouse" to get the
 > wheel going.  Also as well as ZAxisMapping, you'll probably need to tell
 > it that it has five buttons, either
 > 	Option "Buttons" "5"
 > in newer versions of XFree; or
 > 	Buttons 5			<--- from memory, could be wrong
 > in the older version of XFree that you seem to be using.
 > 
 > Cameron.

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