Scroll mouse

[Smizack]

Ok. I can't figure this one out.

I need to have my scroll wheel working in 7.2

How do I do this??

[routehero]

Go in to a command shell and type this:

ps -auwwx | grep gpm

What does it say?

I have an MS Intellimouse Optical under Redhat 7.2 and the scroll works no problem under X-Windows.

I defined my mouse as 'imps2' (not using the USB port).

You can change your mouse type in the file

/etc/sysconfig/mouse

Your mousetype will depend on your mouse. I think one of the Redhat configuration utilities will give you a GUI for changing that, will check when I get home.

[Smizack]

Not sure, I'm messing with windows right now.
I've tried a few scroll hacks before with no luck tho.

[routehero]

In a command shell, type

gpm -t help | more

This will list all of the mouse types that you can specify. You can change what it is set to on boot up in

/etc/sysconfig/mouse

For my MS Intellimouse Optical, I have /etc/mouse as:

FULLNAME="Microsoft - IntelliMouse (PS/2)"
MOUSETYPE="imps2"
XEMU3="no"
XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"


The scroll wheel works no problems in Mozilla (0.9.9).

[Smizack]

Kewl, I'll give that a shot.
Does your's work in Konqueror?

[routehero]

I don't have KDE installed, so I couldn't tell you. I use GNOME for X on this box.

Just load up mozilla, it should work in KDE.

[Smizack]

This is kina wierd. I went to x setup and changed my mouse to a Microsoft Intelimouse, and it still didn't work, but on my last ventures with dual booting, I chose the same mouse (Microsoft Intelimouse) and it's working fine now.

[titan386]

I've found that the setting for scrolling mice is in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. In the section "Input Device" with the identifier of "Mouse0" there should be the following line:
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"

If you change "PS/2" to "IMPS/2" that should give you a scrolling mouse.