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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:27:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to enable scrollwheel mouse?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208081026030.9520-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020808004554.A36656@mail.seattleFenix.net>

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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
> Subject: Re: How to enable scrollwheel mouse?
> 
> * Peter Leftwich (Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) [020807 22:52]:
> > Hello, I am running XFree86 4.2.0 and KDE with the Konqueror browser (both
> > 2.2.2) and my mouse works fine but the scroll wheel does not scroll the
> > page in Konqueror.  Is this something to fix at boot time (when moused or
> > /dev/ums0 is called), in X, in KDE, or what?  Puzzlin.
> > 
> > --
> > Peter Leftwich
> > President & Founder
> > Video2Video Services
> > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
> > +1-413-403-9555
> 
> This is going to be defined in your X config. I have a mouse with two scroll
> buttons, so my configuration looks like this:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 				Driver      "mouse"
> 				Option      "Protocol" "auto"
> 				Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> 				Option      "Buttons" "7"
> 				Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> Your config will probably look more like:
> 
> Option      "Buttons" "5"
> Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Krueger
> 
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YMMV with this. Entertainingly, with my cordless Logitech wheelmouse, the 
wheel works great when I use it as a USB mouse, but when I use the 
USB->ps2 converter and use it as a ps2 mouse, the wheel doesnt work. HAHA!

JB


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