zaxismapping???

[dox]

hi guys

got slack 9.1 installed and scrollwheel isnt working!! well it didnt work in slack 9 either!! i read and did research but without sucsess!!!its an acer mouse and got 2 buttons, scrollwheel and the wheel can be klicked down as well!!currently klicking down the wheel does paste text!!!here my XF86config:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mice"
    Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5"
#    Option "CursorShadow" "on"
#    Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "40"
#    Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "4"
#    Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

i did try it with IMPS/2 to but no sucsess, tell me when editing this file is it required to reboot the machine or is it enough to end session??

hope you can tell me what else i should try!!

[sujoki]

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

that is what you need.

[trommaster]

Option "Protocol" "PS/2"

mine is imps/2...

Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5"

try a space in there
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

i did try it with IMPS/2 to but no sucsess, tell me when editing this file is it required to reboot the machine or is it enough to end session??

you just need to restart X (log out and back in again)

last try if it doesn't work:
open a terminal and run 'xev'
move your mouse into the box that popped up and move the wheel up and down. this should come out:
up:
ButtonPress event, serial 19, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1888159, (175,126), root177,189),
state 0x0, button 4, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 19, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1888159, (175,126), root177,189),
state 0x800, button 4, same_screen YES

Down:
ButtonPress event, serial 19, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1862162, (176,47), root178,110),
state 0x0, button 5, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 19, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 1862162, (176,47), root178,110),
state 0x1000, button 5, same_screen YES

note the button 4 and 5. thats what you are telling X to do, map button 4 and 5 to up and down. you could actually use 1 and 2 and make the left and right buttons scroll (i think)

[dox]

as i said i did try it with option protocol IMPS/2 and it didnt work!!

try a space in there
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

jup i did that!!

xev is nice and cool but absolutly nothing happens when i scroll!!!its like the scrollwheel is dead :'( i realy need that for browsing da web and my folders but it just aint work!!!

well i installed mandrake 9.1 because there scrolling works, i then wrote down what was writen in the XF86config file about the mouse, then i installed slack again and tried that but without sucsess!!! got now slack 9.1 installed again and i did something in that config file and now startx aint work!!! this is friggon frustrating >

[SkyNet]

I think you need to set the number of buttons. If you're using an Explorer then it's something like:

Option "Buttons" "5"

This regular Explorer I think uses IMPS/2, but it might be ExplorerPS/2.

else if you're using the Explorer 3.0 then it's:

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

[trommaster]

hmm, good point. whats the type of mouse you have?
this might be something to take up with the slack developers

[dox]

ummm and how can i fix the problem that startx aint work???

its an acer model:MOSXK-1A

well can you tell me some mouse that scrollwheel works with ease??maybe with model numbre and price!! il just buy a damn new mouse!! ;D

[gaxprels]

I have a $15 dollar optical scrollwheel usb mouse from walmart. It's a Labtec and the scrollwheel works fine.

[trommaster]

well, if xev doesn't work when you move the wheel in the popup box, im stumped :P :P
I would recomend asking some slack people, maybe they know what the issue is

[sujoki]

sorry about that, missed that part saying you had tried it. was in a little bit of a hurry.