I have an A4tech 3 button 2 wheel mouse (actually a trackball, but the
protocol is the same). I had no problem configuring the wheel in various
versions of Mandrake (most recently MDK 9.0). Here's the relevant section of
XF86Config-4 as set up automatically by the MDK install.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
The only problem is that both wheel do the same thing (horizontal scroll), so
essentially, I only have one wheel. After searching for a long time, I
finally found mention of this mouse in **Mouse support in XFree86** at
www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/mouse.html. Based on that, I made the following change
to XF86Config-4:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
After the change, the second wheel is no longer a **copy** of the first wheel,
but it also doesn't do what I expect (i.e vertical scroll). In some
applications the second wheel now does nothing, in some (for example KMail,
KWrite) the second wheel acts like the left button and **selects** text, and
in some (like Mozilla) the behavior is erratic and it **sometimes** does
wierd things like selecting all the text on a page.
Can anyone tell me if they have a mouse like this working as it should and
what applications are known to be two wheel aware? I haven't found any info
about these two questions.
TIA
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Shlomo Solomon
http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
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