hullo hai, You may want to look at documentation that lists the various mouse drivers, but briefly, imps/2 is the ms intellimouse protocol which apparently is pretty widespread. the ps/2 is a more generic protocol that, i think, doesn't include scroll events.
i think "gpm -t help" may give some insight (although the gpm drivers are not the same as the X drivers; there is some overlap though. pete On Sun 02 Jul 06, 1:34 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, Pete: > Thanks a lot! It works after I changed to "ImPS/2". But why is that? > > Hai > > > On 7/2/06, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The device is fine if you have a PS/2 mouse. Just for fun, try using > > > > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > > > >instead of PS/2, and see what happens (you'll have to restart the server). > > > >Pete > > > > > > > >On Sun 02 Jul 06, 1:09 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Thanks, Peter, the following is my mouse config in xorg.conf: > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> Identifier "Configured Mouse" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "CorePointer" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > >> Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > >> EndSection > >> > >> Anything suspious? like: > >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > >> > >> Hai > >> > >> > >> On 7/2/06, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >On Sun 02 Jul 06, 12:43 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> >> Hi there: > >> >> > >> >> When I use the browser (or any other mouse-laden apps) to surf the > >> >> Internet, I found that the mouse's wheel in b/w the buttons doesn't > >> >> work, meaning I can't scroll up/down by moving it so each time I need > >> >> to grab the scroolbar to do so. > >> >> > >> >> I believe its a problem of mouse configuration. But can anyone > >> >> enlighten me with some idea? Like, how to fine-tune a mouse under > >> >> Debian? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> Hai > >> > > >> >The place to look is /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Mine looks like: > >> > > >> > Section "InputDevice" > >> > Identifier "Generic Mouse" > >> > Driver "mouse" > >> > Option "CorePointer" > >> > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > >> > Option "Resolution" "2000" > >> > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > >> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" > >> > Option "buttons" "5" > >> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > >> > EndSection > >> > > >> > > >> >Make sure you have that last line "ZAxisMapping". Also, make sure that > >the > >> >protocol is correct. Some protocols will work generically but won't > >have > >> >things like the scroll wheel. > >> > > >> >Pete > >_______________________________________________ > >vox-tech mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Peter Jay Salzman, Ph.D. http://www.dirac.org/p [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D "Coffee... I've conquered the Borg on coffee!" -- Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
