Re: set up mouse on red hat

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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Desmond Lee wrote:

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> >Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to that the "Input Device" section
> >looks like this:
> >Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >         Driver      "mouse"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection
> 
> I put the section above in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but still can't get the 
> mouse wheel to work. Do I have to restart the box or something? I already 

There should be no need to reboot. This isn't Win!  What you may have to
do is to restart X though.  

> had most of the above in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, just changed 
> '/dev/mouse' to '/dev/psaux'.
> 
> >Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" may be replaced with "/dev/mouse" which is
> >fine as long as /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/psaux.  (check this
> >by trying "ls -l /dev/mouse"
> 
> This does work, /dev/mouse is a symbolice link to /dev/psaux
> 

And your mouse is a Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2 compatible?  It should be
working.  What happened when running mouseconfig?

Oisin Feeley

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