Scrolling in xorg7

Dusty · 2006-02-20 19:44:50

Just went through the xorg7 hiccups, fixed a whole pile of things before I got this far. Just one more thing... my EmulateWheel functionality no longer works. This is a pretty funky thing where I have this 4 button trackball that if I hold the fourth button and scroll the trackball, it acts like a wheel event.

Here's the xorg.conf that worked with xorgR6:

  Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier      "USB Mouse"
      Driver          "mouse"
      Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
      Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
      Option      "EmulateWheel"      "on"
      Option      "EmulateWheelButton"    "4"
  EndSection

My mouse still works, just not the handy-dandy scrolling. Would it be some elusive missing module? Have other people had trouble with 'normal' scroll-wheels and what did they do to fix it?

I love this feature... I remember going into massive withdrawal when I lost it in the kernel 2.4 --> 2.6 upgrade... had to get a kernel dev to fix some stuff... I don't want it to be that difficult.

Dusty

Dusty · 2006-02-20 19:50:25

Ooooooook.... I quickly ran xev and discovered my mouse scroll button is now known as button 8 instead of button 4. Changed that and everything's scrolling. My question is why xorg thinks I have 8 buttons and if this is going to cause my grief?

Dusty

emma · 2006-02-20 20:07:14

Try out evdev. It is nice as it does about everything automatically.

vacant · 2006-02-20 20:27:53

This works for my 7 button mouse

In xorg.conf

    Option "ZAxisMapping"   "6 7"
    Option "Buttons" "7"

then run

/usr/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 11"

polarrr · 2006-02-20 20:33:51

I spent hours trying to get my mouse back button to work again until just now. I did figure out the bit about button getting reassigned to button 8 (6 button mouse though...), xmodmap wanted me to specify 12 buttons. Fixing the matter itself was simple enough, but I'm so bad with numbers (probably 3rd grader can run around in circles around me with numbers), I was getting confused as hell... Like physical button 6....but it's button code 8....button 8 is actually 6....8 has to be in the place of 6...or 6 in the place of 8? Oh no, it's acting like 7....()^%^*(&)*!!! Finally figured it out, and hopefully it'll stay like that. If it's some sort of bug, it'll get fixed...and I get to overwork my peanut brain again :x

Mr Green · 2006-02-23 13:19:10

followed above, scroll is working but 8 & 9 side buttons are not.....

there were under x6.8

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol"   "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "Buttons"           "7"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping"          "6 7"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

now pointer line wants 11 buttons I have only 7 emmm do I change number of buttons to 11 ?

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-02-23 16:07:02

Dusty wrote:

Just went through the xorg7 hiccups, fixed a whole pile of things before I got this far. Just one more thing... my EmulateWheel functionality no longer works. This is a pretty funky thing where I have this 4 button trackball that if I hold the fourth button and scroll the trackball, it acts like a wheel event.
Here's the xorg.conf that worked with xorgR6:
  Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier      "USB Mouse"
      Driver          "mouse"
      Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
      Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
      Option      "EmulateWheel"      "on"
      Option      "EmulateWheelButton"    "4"
  EndSection
My mouse still works, just not the handy-dandy scrolling. Would it be some elusive missing module? Have other people had trouble with 'normal' scroll-wheels and what did they do to fix it?
I love this feature... I remember going into massive withdrawal when I lost it in the kernel 2.4 --> 2.6 upgrade... had to get a kernel dev to fix some stuff... I don't want it to be that difficult.
Dusty

Hm. This is a Logitech Trackman Marble FX config? I love this thing, but just have the fourth button working with issues (pressing it and use wheel functions will select any text that is scrolled by, really weird). Will try your config if you'ld tell me you use this with a marblefx trackman

Dusty · 2006-02-23 17:54:52

Yep, that's it. Works fine for me Try EmulateWheelButton 8 with xorg 7, its what I needed to change.

Dusty

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#1 2006-02-20 19:44:50

Scrolling in xorg7

#2 2006-02-20 19:50:25

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

#3 2006-02-20 20:07:14

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

#4 2006-02-20 20:27:53

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

#5 2006-02-20 20:33:51

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

#6 2006-02-23 13:19:10

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

#7 2006-02-23 16:07:02

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

#8 2006-02-23 17:54:52

Re: Scrolling in xorg7

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