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I am at wits end.  I have read every "scroll-mouse" post back to 1998,
and cannot seem to find the right settings.  I have an IBM desktop
(300PL), with a PS/2 mouse.  This mouse had 3 buttons, and a scroll
knobbie thing, which I believe not only goes up and down, but
left-right as well.  I do not think the knobby thing is pressable,
however.  (So, 3 buttons, 4 scroll movements.)

I am currently running RH7.2 and KDE, altho GNOME is on the machine
also.  I have edited both XF86Config and XF86Config-4 numerous times,
but, again, no setting seems to do the trick.

Thanks for any assistance...

Note that mine uses a PS/2 type connection. If your's is a serial mouse
(if there is a serial ScrollPoint mouse), then this may not work.

Here's what I did to get it working:

In file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 under Section "InputDevice" containing
Identifier "Mouse0"

  change line:  Option  "Protocol" "PS/2"
  to:           Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

  add line:     Option  "Buttons" "7"

  change line:  Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
  to:           Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"

So, the entire section reads:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Buttons" "7"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

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**    Scott Allen   ***   Toronto, Ontario, Canada    **
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<snip> very helpful informations </snip>

wow, great, my scrollpoint WORKS!!!!!

thanx for the tip with the XF86Config-4. i edited the XF86Config
nearly hundred times, but no change.
it was XF86Config-4 i needed!!

THX!!!!
greetings
ines

Also, My mouse only has two buttons, not three. If yours has three, then
you don't need the line

 Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "on"

And it is correct that the scrollpoint is not pressable. It is, however,
pressure sensitive. The harder you push it, the faster the scroll action.

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**    Scott Allen   ***   Toronto, Ontario, Canada    **
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