Linux - Help me before I go insane

[djs1w]

I installed Redhat 7.2 this morning because I wanna play with it a bit. All went well, except the mouse wheel doesn't work. I never knew how much I relied on this thing and it's driving me nuts having to manually move the vertical scroll bar. I'm assuming I need to pick a different driver but have no clue as to where or if I even have the right driver on the
machine.

Any help would greatly appreciated.

/starts to pull hair out

 

[Abzstrak]

which program do U want to use it in? for example, in netscape go into the preferences/advanced/mouse wheel.

not all programs will use it

 

[djs1w]

yeah netscape is primarily what I'm looking for. However, I didn't see that option listed under preferences-->advanced-->wheel. Using Communicator 4.78.

 

[djs1w]

well this is what I did to get it to work in Netscape:

Follow the directions on this webpage:

http://kalamazoolinux.org/tech/ns-wheel.html

and then run /usr/sbin/mouseconfig and change your mousetype to Intellimouse even though you might not have an Intellimouse. Reboot and it started scrolling for me, woot! 🙂

 

[BlackOmen]

In addition, to get it working in all other apps, open your XF86Config file in a text editor, look for Section "InputDevice" and add Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" somewhere before the next EndSection.

 

[AkumaBao]

Oops. Didn't read the whole thing. 😛 Yes, I'm using a generic mouse with the Intelimouse setting, and not having a single problem.

 

[MGMorden]

<< In addition, to get it working in all other apps, open your XF86Config file in a text editor, look for Section "InputDevice" and add Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" somewhere before the next EndSection. >>



you also want to add:
Option "Buttons" "5"

and make sure your protocol is set to IMPS/2

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

yeah mine looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

my mouse wheel has worked just fine from the start.