How do you get a wheel mouse to work in linux?

[Rifter]

Well how do i do it, its just a old logitech wheel mouse(PS/2) nothing special about it, but how do i get it to work(the wheel i mean, it works fine as a normal 3 button now just no wheel)

 

[Damaged]

Which version of Linux are you running? Which version of X are you running?

 

[vwkess]

Look here to get it going.

 

[Rifter]

Mandrake 7.2, and i dunno what version of X

 

[SUOrangeman]

Mandrake 7.2 set this thing up for me. I selected MS IntelliMouse during the install and a graphic telling me that I had to roll the scroll wheel before doing everything else. Once I did that, I was golden.

If you are not in X (the graphical interface), trying running mouseconfig as root. Select Intellimouse and try just moving the scroll wheel before doing anything else. harddrake may work just as well.

-SUO

 

[Damaged]

Under XFree86 v.3.x.x I just added the following lines to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file:

protocol "IM/PS"
ZAxisMapping 4 5

Delete any lines referring to three button emulation and restart X.

Things that are native gtk + (like Gnome) will recognize and allow you to use the mouse without any tweaking. Things like Netscape, probably where you really want the wheel to work, require either the code entered into your /home/<user>/.Xdefaults file, or running something like imwheel. Mandrake has an rpm for imwheel.

 

[xyyz]

i had the same mousewith redhat 7.0 and it automatically detected the scroll wheel.

I wasn't able to use the scrolling feature on everything though...