[plug] Scroll mouse and imwheel

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Mon May 26 13:40:47 WST 2003


On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 07:38, Scott Middleton wrote:
> I am reasonably sure the imwheel program is for XFree 3.3 and 4.x has
> scroll built into it. Since you didn't mention which version you are
> running I am going to assume 4. 
> 
> This should be all you need if you are running 4.x in XF86Config-4
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Mouse1"
>     Driver "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol" "imPS/2"
>     Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>     Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection


Thanks! I did as you suggested as well as commenting out the emulate 3
mouse buttons options. A quick restart of X (control-alt-backspace) and
all is good! It works!

Thanks Scott!
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 00:12, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Anyone able to help me with this.
> > 
> > I have an AOpen PS2 scroll mouse. I'm running debian woody with KDE 2
> > and my default display manager set to XDM.
> > 
> > I did apt-get install imwheel
> > 
> > cat /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc > ~/.imwheelrc
> > 
> > .imwheelrc is now sitting in my home directory
> > 
> >  When running imwheel I get 
> > 
> > INFO: imwheel start (pid=1348)
> > User defined signal 1
> > 
> > then I try the scroll mouse and nothing happens..
> > 
> > Any ideas what to do from here. I tried reading the man page but I
> > really didn't understand a word of it. Perhaps it should be called woman
> > (;
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris Caston
> > 
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