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MS Intellimouse Trackball not working with XFree86-3.3.3-1

MS Intellimouse Trackball not working with XFree86-3.3.3-1

Post by Scott Swanso » Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:00:00



Hello,

I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball.  I'm trying to get it working
properly under XFree86-3.3.3-1.  When I configure it as an Intellimouse
(PS/2) and run X, the mouse just spazzes out and then disappears.  if it
configure it as a Generic PS/2 mouse, it appears to work properly.  Does
anyone know why this is?  I'd like to get the use of the wheel (you can
click it like a button) as the 3rd button, and I don't get that with the
generic PS/2 mouse setting.

One a side note, does anyone know if the mouse wheel is supported for
scrolling windows under X like it does under Win9x and NT?

Thanks,

    -Scott

 
 
 
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MS Intellimouse Trackball not working with XFree86-3.3.3-1

Post by Michael L Youn » Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:00:00


I have an intellimouse and I love it.  It was pain though trying to setup in
X.  Here is what I did :

protocol should be "imps/2"
to get the mouse wheel to work (though it doesn't work like it does in
windows) just add "ZAxisMapping 4 5" after the other mouse items.

Hope this helps ...

Michael


> Hello,

> I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball.  I'm trying to get it working
> properly under XFree86-3.3.3-1.  When I configure it as an Intellimouse
> (PS/2) and run X, the mouse just spazzes out and then disappears.  if it
> configure it as a Generic PS/2 mouse, it appears to work properly.  Does
> anyone know why this is?  I'd like to get the use of the wheel (you can
> click it like a button) as the 3rd button, and I don't get that with the
> generic PS/2 mouse setting.

> One a side note, does anyone know if the mouse wheel is supported for
> scrolling windows under X like it does under Win9x and NT?

> Thanks,

>     -Scott


 
 
 
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MS Intellimouse Trackball not working with XFree86-3.3.3-1

Post by Charles Sulliva » Tue, 12 Jan 1999 04:00:00


There's a program called 'imwheel' which enables the MS Intellimouse
PS/2 wheel to function.  The package also includes a patched version of
'gpm' which fixes the other button problems with this mouse.

The 'imwheel' RPM package (imwheel-0.9.5.tar.gz) is available at:
http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel

After installing, manually edit /etc/sysconfig/mouse and change the
mouse designator to 'imps2' (this becomes  the argument for gpm).

(The above instructions are for RH5.2;  I assume other Linux versions
will be similar).

Regards,
Charles Sullivan


>Hello,

>I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball.  I'm trying to get it working
>properly under XFree86-3.3.3-1.  When I configure it as an Intellimouse
>(PS/2) and run X, the mouse just spazzes out and then disappears.  if it
>configure it as a Generic PS/2 mouse, it appears to work properly.  Does
>anyone know why this is?  I'd like to get the use of the wheel (you can
>click it like a button) as the 3rd button, and I don't get that with the
>generic PS/2 mouse setting.

>One a side note, does anyone know if the mouse wheel is supported for
>scrolling windows under X like it does under Win9x and NT?

>Thanks,

>    -Scott

 
 
 
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MS Intellimouse Trackball not working with XFree86-3.3.3-1

Post by Xtamor » Tue, 12 Jan 1999 04:00:00


Michael L Young heeft geschreven in bericht

Quote:>I have an intellimouse and I love it.  It was pain though trying to setup

in

same in here , took me 3 days, but now it's pure fun !!

Quote:>>> I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball.  I'm trying to get it working
>> properly under XFree86-3.3.3-1.  When I configure it as an Intellimouse
>> (PS/2) and run X, the mouse just spazzes out and then disappears.  if it
>> configure it as a Generic PS/2 mouse, it appears to work properly.  Does
>> anyone know why this is?  I'd like to get the use of the wheel (you can
>> click it like a button) as the 3rd button, and I don't get that with the
>> generic PS/2 mouse setting.

Take a look at freshmeat and search for "imwheel"
take a look at your gpm version from 1.13 it should be fine btw it's
included in imwheel
and change your XF86Config file following the readme & faq
if it doesn't work contact me, because i know it's a damn hard thing to
get it working.

good luck,

Greets Jo

 
 
 
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