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Re: Any chance of getting PS/2 wheel mouse support in 'X'?

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Mike Bell (athasian@altavista.net)
Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:39:25 -0800

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:48:38PM -0800, Ya`akov N Miles wrote:
> Mike Bell wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:22:07PM -0800, Ya`akov N Miles wrote:
> > > Rob Thomas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > X has supported the mousewheel for *quite* a while, in both serial and PS/2
> > > > mice. All you have to do is add this line to your XF86Config:
> > > >
> > > > ZAxisMapping 4 5
> > > >
> > > > (You stick this in your "Pointer" section).
> > >
> > > I tried it but 'X' puked at the keyword 'ZAxisMapping', and YES I DID
> > > put it as the last line in the "Pointer" section. I tried both 45
> > > and 4 5 and nada. Its barfing at the keyword "ZAxisMapping" not the
> > > number. I am using XFree86 3.3.5 which comes with Slackware 7.0
> >
> > Your mouse type has to be Intellimouse or imps2. (Double check I've got
> > those right, it's something along those lines. *grin*)
>
> Yup. My wheel mouse is a Microsoft "Intellimouse" PS/2 mouse

No, I ment that it has to be listed as intellimouse in the config file, not
microsoft or whatever you've got in there now. 

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