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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > We just acquired at a yard sale a mouse with two buttons on top, a small
> > wheel between them, and another narrow button on the left side.  Is this a
> > 3-button wheel mouse and if not, what is it?  How do we set this up for
> > Xvesa, ln -s /dev/???? /dev/mouse  ?  Will this also take care of svgalib
> > mouse?  I only have experience so far with PS/2 (default in Xvesa) and
> > serial mice.
> > 
> > Sindi
> > 
> 
> A web search on wheel mouse, linux, and xvesa produced the following 
> information.
> 
> A wheel mouse is like a 5-button mouse but the scroll wheel substitutes 
> for the 4th and 5th buttons (which move the scrollbar?)
> 
> /dev/psaux,5 for a PS/2 wheel mouse

I read in a few other places to just leave /dev/mouse (which is defined 
elsewhere as psaux) in /etc/XF86Config.

> 
> In Xf86config you need to modify 
> Section "Input Device"

I think this was actually "Pointer".  

> Identifier "Mouse"
> /dev/psaux  [or psaux,5?]
Not needed.  /dev/mouse works
> Option "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
> Option "Buttons"   "3"
Should be "5"

But when I tried this I typed startx and got back error messages 
complaining about the two Option lines, with Option underlined.  
Does XFree 3 do things differently from 4?  The instructions were also to 
modify two different XF86Config files, one of which I do not have.

> 
> DamnSmallLinux is now set to use the wheel mouse if found, when you 
> specify PS/2 mouse, in Xvesa (?).

Have not yet tried this in DSL.

> 
> Someone was playing with Xvesa and xev and reports that "Xvesa does not 
> generate any events for any of the side buttons or the scroll wheel" 
> except that depressing the wheel is like hitting the Enter key.
> 
> Another site said that in order to get Kdrive Xvesa to work with a wheel 
> mouse you need to modify the driver mouse.c (and presumably compile Xvesa 
> yourself).

Tried compiling imwheel and running it with IMPS/2 instead of PS/2 but it 
turns out that is for intellimouse and we have memorex wheel mouse.

Imwheel was at least easy to compile.

This mouse works fine in Win98 as a wheel mouse.