Mouse wheel no workie.

[Sivar]

I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer connected to the system via the PS/2 port.
When I use the IMPS/2 protocol in the X config file, depending on what mouse device I have set, it does the following:
/dev/mouse: Mouse is completely insane, moving randomely and preferring the upper left corner.
/dev/psaux: Mouse prefers lower left corner of screen. If I move it to the right, it works as does the mousewheel. However, if I move it to the left even one pixel it sets the cursor position back to the lower left of the screen.

When I just use the regular 3-button mouse protocol, as I am doing now, the mouse works but the wheel is completely ignored. I do have the appropriate line in the config file to tell X about the extra buttons.

Additionally, is there a way that I can get the additional two buttons to function? This mouse has an extra two buttons on the left side. In Windows I like using them for "back" and "forward" in the web browser (though they no longer work in Windows for some mysterious reason.)


Thanks ahead of time. Gentoo is the distro that finally converted me from FreeBSD (for my desktop, anyway)
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[TheWart]

Could you post the mouse part of your XF86 file?
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

[Sivar]

Certainly, kind sir:

## begin ##
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
## end ##

Have tried:
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
And various combinations thereof.
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[roTor]

Try this . I've got an Intellimouse too, and this works fine for me.
# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5"
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[Sivar]

That is one combination that I have tried, but it tends to confuse the mouse terribly as described above.
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[Anti]

Try renaming your XF86Config to XF86Config-4 instead. Worked for me.
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[kode54]

Probably a STUPID question, but do you have gpm installed and running? :/

[Sivar]

The Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer seems itself to be incompatible with their own Intellimouse protocol. How unusual for Microsoft. ;-)

I purchased a regular Microsoft Intellimouse and it works perfectly--and was a hell of alot cheaper than the Explorer.
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[sa]

Try this for all 5 buttons

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Resolution" "450"
EndSection

[sburnett]

This sounds like a problem I once had. If you have gpm enabled, disable it. Having two mouse drivers installed messes everything up. If not, than I'm stumpted.

[metalhedd]

my friend had a noname clone of that same mouse. worked fine. I can back up the previous suggestion about gpm. it can cause WIERD Things to happen to your mouse in X. and theres really nothing that warns you about it (That i've seen anyway)