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jamesgf
03-24-2003, 03:44 PM
The mouse works fine, except i cant get the wheel to work

any suggestions?

thanks,
-jamie

rickenbacherus
03-24-2003, 05:04 PM
hmmmm It must be Microsoft up to their old tricks again!

Or more likely you just have to use the proper cheat code. They're all right here on the Knoppix site. Do a search.

jgmcbride
03-24-2003, 07:07 PM
You can also try modifications of the following code.

Here a setup for a wheelmouse under XFree86 v.4.0.1 as found in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

I personally have used the second one with a MS wheelmouse so I know that it works.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection




Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

RockMumbles
03-24-2003, 10:34 PM
(1) Are you running from cd or a hd install?

(2) Is your mouse connected as a usb mouse or ps/2?

rock

jamesgf
03-24-2003, 10:50 PM
rock-

im running from an hd install (installed this weekend, was very easy), my mouse is connected via ps/2.

-jamie

RockMumbles
03-25-2003, 12:48 AM
Look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and look at the post by jgmcbride.

I have an ms optical wheelmouse and it works fine, did you start knoppix with:

knoppix wheelmouse

when you installed?

if no then just edit your XF86Config-4 file and you should be ready to go.

rock

jamesgf
03-26-2003, 04:19 PM
rock-

I changed it last night to the posted configuration with no luck. Still no wheel. Here is what is in my xf86config-4 file (from memory, think i remember it all....)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"

The corepointer is the ps/2 mouse (InputDevice "PS/2 mouse" "corepointer"). If i boot knoppix from the cd, mkxf86config after the mouse is working, would that file give me whatever im missing to get this working? just a thought.....

-jamie

RockMumbles
03-27-2003, 05:23 PM
jamie,

At this point I would boot to your knoppix cd, make sure that you use every boot parameter you need ie:

knoppix wheelmouse *cheat-code cheat-code etc

then mount your hd as read/write, open a konsole window and then use:

sudo su

to become root and copy the knoppix /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to your hd. That's by far the easiest way to "edit" your XF86Config-4 file.

HTH

rock

dodger
05-01-2003, 12:44 PM
hi there
had the same problem, but with the help from this thread i managed to get the wheel to work.

use this config for your Xf86-config-4, as jgmcbride wrote above:


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


then, and this is the part which was missing in this thread, change the first lines of your config file to something like this:




Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" <=this was the original one
InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer" <=change to the "configured mouse"


restart your x-server and it should work fine...

greetings
D