Alright, update. Once I learned which of my XFCONFIG-4 mouse settings was USB, I ended up attacking it from that angle. I took the PS/2 connector off my IntelliMouse, got the "hotplug" package (not really sure what part that played, but a friend suggested I needed it), changed protocol for the USB mouse to "ImPS/2" and removed the Emulate3Buttons option, and bingo, I've got scroll wheel capability.
I hadn't realized that my builtin eraser mouse was a PS/2 mouse, despite numerous things hinting at it. Feel a bit dumb now. Anyways I still think that would be the best setup possible, as my laptop has only one USB port, and it's nice to just be able to pop my card reader into the port and not have to juggle around with changing the mouse back to PS/2 whenever I want to do that. I like how Windows handled it- when I boot up with my MS mouse on PS/2, it disables the internal and gives me scroll wheel. Optimally that's what's going to happen on the Linux side eventually too. Do you have examples of X programs that don't use the scroll wheel? GTK and QT apps of course handle it, other X programs probably have to be compiled with "libmousewheel" or something with a similar name? So I guess I'll check out gpm sometime soon, and maybe before too long get in the mood to play with XF86 settings and restart X a million times before I get it all right :) Maybe I'll get around to making a Thinkpad 560x Linux page sometime too, although it's a really old laptop it's nice to see support pages newer than 1999.. Thank you and Jason Kraftcheck and Thomas Hood for the help and pointers. On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:08:30PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Dan" == Dan Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dan> That's all I can think of right now. Eagerly awaiting being > Dan> able to scroll through documents without moving my > Dan> arms/wrist, Dan > > Dan, > > You might want to try > > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > > instead of "PS/2" for /dev/psaux. I use almost exactly the same > settings as you do (the exception is that my mouse is connected via > /dev/gpmdata because I run gpm). I know longer use a serial mouse, but > I could swear it used to work before I got a USB mouse.... > > Also, all X clients do not understand the mouse wheel. I know the > Mozilla, XEmacs and XTerm certainly do since I use them all the > while. > > Cheers! > Shyamal > -- Dan Rasmussen Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't forget to submit to your corporate masters, and believe unquestioningly everything the media tells you.
