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Hello!
If anybody can help me please tell me what can I do to make the scroll wheel of the mouse to work.
Shoud I be able to scroll with the well from the Mozilla Browser ?
I haven't used Linux before
I have a Genius NetScroll+ serial mouse and even though I type knoppix wheelmouse when I boot from the knoppix CD (I didn't install it on the HDD) the wheel still has no efect in any programs
Thank you
Adrian
I don't know how to fix your problem. But since you are new to Linux I can give you a clue. Use a text editor to look at the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. This is the file for graphics and input devices. In it you will find a section for serial mouse. Mine looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Serial Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Hope you get it to work :)
Which version of Knoppix are you running?Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian
I was hacking around in the mkxf86config scripts for other reasons. (Actually, I copied the "wheel" entry and added "glidepoint" for my laptop's touchpad...), and it looks like a few of the "cheatcodes" have changed slightly in 3.2. For example, in 3.2, "wheelmouse" won't do anything at all, but "wheel" will for PS/2 mice by changing "PS/2" to "IMPS/2". USB mice don't need any cheatcodes for wheel support, which is why I probably never noticed a problem. (USB mice default to the IMPS/2 protocol to begin with.)
I've never seen a serial wheel mouse, if such a beast exists, "wheel" in its current incarnation won't do anything.
I do have a serial wheelmouse, and it works well under Windows 98 without any drivers installed be the user (me).
I have Knoppix 3.2 CD (as seen in the index.html file on the CD).
The "Serial Mouse" "InputDevice" section in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
is exactly as the one showed by MattT.
On Windows 95 the scrool wheel does not work also, even with the NetScroll+ drivers for Win95 installed.
Since I cannot install a driver with the Knoppix CD (I don't know how to install a driver on Linux anyway) I gived it up, I don't think there is a solution (other then a HDD instalation of Linux).
What you might want to try, it's a bit of a convoluted approach:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian
Boot into textmode. (Use your usual cheatcodes, and add the "2" cheatcode)
emacs /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Change the "Protocol" entry. IMPS/2 is what is used for PS/2 wheel mice, I don't know what the protocol is for serial wheel mice - I'm 90% positive that if the version of X that comes on the Knoppix CD doesn't support the wheel with your mouse, no version of Linux will. XFree has a reasonably complete mouse driver set built in.
Then either try "startx" or "init 5"
If worst comes to worst, get a PS/2 or USB wheelmouse... That will free up your serial port for other things, and every PS/2 or USB wheelmouse I've used has worked with the "IMPS/2" protocol.