Mouse Wheel not working under Slackware 9.1

[perry_a]

ok here's my mouse config:


Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.

# Option "Resolution" "256"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection


so like, help me out, i'm sure it's pretty simple but i'm having no luck just copying stuff from other posts

thanks much

:p

[perry_a]

as my signature indicates, i have 5 operating systems on one machine here. it turns out, Slackware and Redhat use the same version of XF86Config file where as Mandrake uses -4.

so, i took a hunch a cut & paste the following:


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection


and scored a direct hit!

thanks much!

- perry

[EnigmaOne]

I recall posting several examples of XF86Config-4 files that have seemed to assist others in resolving mouse issues (or so I'm led to believe):

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=718470#post718470
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=688647&highlight=mouse#post688647
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=678098&highlight=mouse#post678098

Are some of the postings that I can come up with on short notice.

[EnigmaOne]

oops....saw you fixed it after already posting...LOL

Just an FYI to folks:
In most cases, you can find answers to X configuration questions by reading the documentation that is most likely already on your filesystem:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/
wherein you'll find something approximating the following:

[user@localhost doc]$ ls -l
total 792
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1140 Oct 20 2003 BugReport
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8368 Oct 20 2003 BUILD
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 245014 Oct 20 2003 DESIGN
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 9410 Oct 20 2003 Install
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 35336 Oct 20 2003 LICENSE
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7522 Oct 20 2003 README
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3342 Oct 20 2003 README.apm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 34130 Oct 20 2003 README.ati
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 53697 Oct 20 2003 README.chips
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23553 Apr 15 2002 README.Config
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1472 Oct 20 2003 README.cyrix
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2452 Oct 20 2003 README.DECtga
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 13804 Oct 20 2003 README.DGA
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7377 Oct 20 2003 README.dps
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 47099 Oct 20 2003 README.DRI
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 21846 Oct 20 2003 README.DRIcomp
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 41653 Oct 20 2003 README.fonts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3172 Oct 20 2003 README.I128
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3781 Oct 20 2003 README.i740
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2950 Oct 20 2003 README.i810
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 35018 Oct 20 2003 README.mouse
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1539 Oct 20 2003 README.newport
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2859 Oct 20 2003 README.r128
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1190 Oct 20 2003 README.rapidaccess
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5798 Oct 20 2003 README.rendition
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1951 Oct 20 2003 README.s3virge
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4300 Oct 20 2003 README.SiS
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 48655 Oct 20 2003 RELNOTES
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1708 Oct 20 2003 ServersOnly
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 26002 Oct 20 2003 Status
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 12950 Oct 20 2003 Versions
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 25022 Oct 20 2003 VideoBoard98