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Topic: Getting generic PS2 mouse to scroll, have NEVER done it

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panama

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,04:11

It's pretty annoying to be used to the scroll function...have a mouse with a scroll wheel...and not be able to make the damned thing work.

my last real attempt was here:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....+scroll

needless to say it didn't work.

any suggestions?

panama

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,21:01

Did you have any luck using gpm?

It should work if you set your repeater to IMPS/2 protocol and changing the device name in you .xserverrc file.

panama

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Posted: Oct. 03 2004,22:03

i didn't have any luck the first time....but ok...i'll try it again...uh...but change the device name to what??

it's currently -3button

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,12:29

You need to do one of two things...

Either re-symlink "/dev/mouse" to the gpm device name (I don't remember the exact syntax /dev/gpm0

I dunno) or refer directly to /dev/gpm0 in the .xserverrc command line.

Also, I believe that the number of buttons (IE: /dev/mouse,X) should be set to 5, IE: /dev/gpm0,5

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Posted: Oct. 24 2004,16:23

i got mine working, but in xfree86, not xvesa. I have two mice, mapped to two cursors on a laptop, just to really confuse the issues

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