[newbie] Wheel Mouse
Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with Dell on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on their machine.) I tried all the PS2 drivers under mousedrake, and none of them seem to work. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
This is how I got mine to work. http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/157510http://linuxquestions.org/ questions/history/157510 Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Risley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with Dell on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on their machine.) I tried all the PS2 drivers under mousedrake, and none of them seem to work. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Thanks, I'll try that out. Apologies for the double post. Cheers, Mike Bill Echols wrote: This is how I got mine to work. http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/157510http://linuxquestions.org/ questions/history/157510 Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Risley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with Dell on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on their machine.) I tried all the PS2 drivers under mousedrake, and none of them seem to work. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:38 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:14:11 -0500 Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. This is what was received. What did you send? There are some odd things going on at the moment. You will see that this was addressed to me as well as to the list, and I got my copy. It said: Strange behavior .. nothing showed up in my last response. This is what it said: Hey Anne, I did post a question after that. It dealt with MandrakeOnline, and read: Is there a way to schedule a computer that's registered with MandrakeOnline to do updates earlier in the day than around midnight? Still a newbie when it comes to this command line stuff .. lol :-) -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Microsoft-free PC Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
Linus Drouhard wrote: I had a similar issue with my mouse attached to the PS2 port. Couldn't get it to work in MDK 9 at all. Put the adapter on and plugged into USB and it works fine. I have no ideas why. My son has similar computer (different mouse) and his works through USB port. That's interesting - I've used PS/2 to serial adapters, but I've never even heard of a PS/2 to USB adaptor - don't the two protocols work at different speeds? Anyway, I fixed my mouse problem by using the clever heuristics I developed in my Microsoft days - do things at random, reboot, reinstall programs, whatever. I suspect the thing that made the crucial difference was putting it on some printed paper instead of blank paper (my desk is no good, as it has a glass top which drives optical mice crazy). Sir Robin -- A Perl script is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
On Wed, January 22 2003 5:37 am, robin wrote: *snip* That's interesting - I've used PS/2 to serial adapters, but I've never even heard of a PS/2 to USB adaptor - don't the two protocols work at different speeds? *snip* USB Devices work at only what they need, therefore, it is quite conceivable that a simple PS2 to USB adapter can do the job. My Logitech Trackman Wheel is a USB/PS2 mouse. It has a USB plug, and it came with an adapter to plug into the PS/2 mouse port that I can plug that USB mouse into. However, it's just an interface change, it doesn't actually provide a USB port, so that might be what is misleading you. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---==--- Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
I had a similar issue with my mouse attached to the PS2 port. Couldn't get it to work in MDK 9 at all. Put the adapter on and plugged into USB and it works fine. I have no ideas why. My son has similar computer (different mouse) and his works through USB port. Linus On Monday 20 January 2003 01:21, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 23:13, Rob Wideman wrote: So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic ps2 wheel mouse and clicked OK, after that anything that i did with the mouse it would go to the upper right corner and just start shaking. I changed the config file for X11 and nogo. Any thoughts on how to get the wheel working? Rob Same setup, had the same issue. Happens every time I install mdk. Press down on the wheel and then scroll a little. Might take a few times. If that doesn't do it (it should), hit ALT F7 and ALT F1. (or vice versa, can't remember) In any case, it will reinit your mouse and you should be good to go. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
I've just bought an optical wheel mouse with the name of - dig this - Optical Faerie - chic 1380 (it's from China, and assume they were going through a thesaurus). After installing imwheel, the wheeel works as a middle button, but rolling it to scroll only works in Mozilla. Scorlling in KWrite, OO etc, prints a 3 one way and a 9 in the other. I've hunted around on the web, but there's little documentation on imwheel. Anyone who's had similar problems, please answwer before I take it back to the shop! Sir Robin -- Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies. - Montaigne Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:44:13 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've hunted around on the web, but there's little documentation on imwheel. Anyone who's had similar problems, please answwer before I take it back to the shop! With todays WMs and apps 95% of the time you do not need imwheel and in fact it can as you have seen cause problems. rpm -e imwheel and then run mousedrake and select the appropriate mouse, ps/2 usb wheel mouse I have been using a wheel mouse for years (optical since they came out) and have not had imwheel install since 7.2 and have never had a problem using the wheel. We will skip the subject of Sir Robin and Faeries, unless of course you want to talk about Porky's. Charles msg116070/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:44, robin wrote: I've just bought an optical wheel mouse with the name of - dig this - Optical Faerie - chic 1380 (it's from China, and assume they were going through a thesaurus). After installing imwheel, the wheeel works as a middle button, but rolling it to scroll only works in Mozilla. Scorlling in KWrite, OO etc, prints a 3 one way and a 9 in the other. I've hunted around on the web, but there's little documentation on imwheel. Anyone who's had similar problems, please answwer before I take it back to the shop! Sir Robin So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I do have to say, though, that the name is definitely attractive to my daughter - she wants one now...(I read the email whilst she was in the room - my bad) -- Mon Jan 20 18:00:00 EST 2003 6:00pm up 4 days, 3:43, 6 users, load average: 0.06, 0.22, 0.19 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Our swords shall play the orators for us. -- Christopher Marlowe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic ps2 wheel mouse and clicked OK, after that anything that i did with the mouse it would go to the upper right corner and just start shaking. I changed the config file for X11 and nogo. Any thoughts on how to get the wheel working? Rob __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse in applications
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 23:13, Rob Wideman wrote: So it's safe to assume that you've rerun mousedrake and all that jazz, right? I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic ps2 wheel mouse and clicked OK, after that anything that i did with the mouse it would go to the upper right corner and just start shaking. I changed the config file for X11 and nogo. Any thoughts on how to get the wheel working? Rob Same setup, had the same issue. Happens every time I install mdk. Press down on the wheel and then scroll a little. Might take a few times. If that doesn't do it (it should), hit ALT F7 and ALT F1. (or vice versa, can't remember) In any case, it will reinit your mouse and you should be good to go. -- ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net Linux 2.4.19-16mdk - The Universe is populated by stable things. -- Richard Dawkins signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Wheel mouse and laptop?
I was curious ... I have a Dell Latitude C610, and use a PS/2 wheel mouse while I'm at work. When I'm at home, I have to plug in a PS/2 mouse to use. If I try to use the glidepad, the mouse behaves VERY erratically (i.e. it clicks for no apparent reason, pointer seems to camp out in the lower left corner). Any suggestions on how I may go about remedying the situation? Things work well if I change my mouse to say just a generic PS/2 mouse, but I would love to keep the wheel funtion if I'm able to. Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Micro$soft-free PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse and laptop?
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Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse and laptop?
On Thursday 16 January 2003 09:21 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: I was curious ... I have a Dell Latitude C610, and use a PS/2 wheel mouse while I'm at work. When I'm at home, I have to plug in a PS/2 mouse to use. If I try to use the glidepad, the mouse behaves VERY erratically (i.e. it clicks for no apparent reason, pointer seems to camp out in the lower left corner). Any suggestions on how I may go about remedying the situation? Things work well if I change my mouse to say just a generic PS/2 mouse, but I would love to keep the wheel funtion if I'm able to. Thanks! People curse and fix it according to one vehement linux critic. The problem is 3-button emulation which is in effect for most notebook internals. That kills the wheel mouse. If you properly install the wheel mouse then the erratic normal mouse is observed. There is a small statement in 9.0 errata about that one. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90errata.php3 Error scenario: When changing the mouse protocol from PS2 (simple PS2 mouse) to IMPS2 (PS2 wheel mouse), the mouse goes crazy. Why: Not really known; for some the mouse goes back to normal when using the wheel during the mouse test (as the installer asks with the MOVE YOUR WHEEL message). With some mice, this does not seem to work. Solution: Format a floppy disk with a DOS filesystem (in Linux, you can use the command mkdosfs /dev/fd0). Copy patch.pl to the floppy disk. Remove the floppy and reboot using the Mandrake Linux 9.0 CD1 to do a CD-ROM installation. During boot, press F1 at the splash screen, then place your floppy disk that contains patch.pl in the floppy drive. At the prompt, type patch, then follow the installation as usual. And of course the problem is ALSO notebooks in general. The hardware is not exactly standard, and the drivers for windows are generally customized by the notebook maker to avoid little annoyances like this. When you have a manufacturer of notebooks offering linux preinstalled, it is likely that this little annoyance will not be evident. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wheel mouse
Hi, Can anyone help me on installing the wheelmouse for LM 7.2? It just detect the mouse as a normal PS/2 mouse. I am not sure how to setup. New to linux, can anyone tell me the steps or instruction on doing it? This mouse works in the Win98 without any problem or installing any driver. Thanks. Leo
Re: [newbie] wheel mouse
At 18:29 16.01.2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me on installing the wheelmouse for LM 7.2? It just detect the mouse as a normal PS/2 mouse. I am not sure how to setup. New to linux, can anyone tell me the steps or instruction on doing it? This mouse works in the Win98 without any problem or installing any driver. Thanks. Leo leo, search for a rpm package called imwheel ( it should be on your mandrake distro cd) and install it.read through the imwheel howto (or readme, will be installed with the rpm) and u are done.not very difficult to set up the wheel.(if i am understanding u right that u want to setup the wheel.mouse itself already works, doesnt it ?) --quay
RE: [newbie] wheel mouse
Launch DrakConf and then Mouse choice. You can select either the MouseMan+ or the Intellimouse. One or either should allow your wheel to function. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leo TanSent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:29 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] wheel mouse Hi, Can anyone help me on installing the wheelmouse for LM 7.2? It just detect the mouse as a normal PS/2 mouse. I am not sure how to setup. New to linux, can anyone tell me the steps or instruction on doing it? This mouse works in the Win98 without any problem or installing any driver. Thanks. Leo
Re: [newbie] wheel mouse
Leo, This is the link I used to get mine going. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html Good Luck Trevor - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] wheel mouse At 18:29 16.01.2001 +0800, you wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me on installing the wheelmouse for LM 7.2? It just detect the mouse as a normal PS/2 mouse. I am not sure how to setup. New to linux, can anyone tell me the steps or instruction on doing it? This mouse works in the Win98 without any problem or installing any driver. Thanks. Leo leo, search for a rpm package called imwheel ( it should be on your mandrake distro cd) and install it.read through the imwheel howto (or readme, will be installed with the rpm) and u are done.not very difficult to set up the wheel.(if i am understanding u right that u want to setup the wheel.mouse itself already works, doesnt it ?) --quay
[newbie] Wheel mouse
Hi everybody. I have just a quick question for you all. I have a Logitech MouseMan Optical and I was wondering, how do you make the wheel work on it? Thanks a ton! Joe
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
Make sure xf86config has your input device set to imps2 and not just ps2. Hammond Steve wrote: Hi. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ but I do not understand why the wheel is not working on mandrake 7.1. On the Web site it is said that it should work, so can you help?? Thanks -- Steve Hammond -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
Hi, This one does not work fine for me even if I have XFree 4.0. I must use imwheel to get the scroll working. Le dim, 13 aoû 2000, vous avez écrit : Mike and Tracy (or, maybe just one of them) helped me with this exact problem, so maybe I can pass it along to you... First, are you using XFree86 3.3.6 or XFree86 4.0? If you're using XF86-4.0, then your problem is like mine, and you have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (note the "-4"). In the pointers section, add: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Also, if you want to use the wheely-mouse in Netscape, you'll need to use imwheel, but this is pissing me off at the moment as it changes everything else! --Greg Hi. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ but I do not understand why the wheel is not working on mandrake 7.1. On the Web site it is said that it should work, so can you help?? Thanks -- Steve Hammond __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) -- Steve Hammond
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
If you're using XFree 4, just drop a copy of imwheel into your autostart folder (and I believe you may have to chmod to get user permissions on the file), when you startx, you'll have your scroll mouse. Mike Hi, This one does not work fine for me even if I have XFree 4.0. I must use imwheel to get the scroll working. Le dim, 13 aoû 2000, vous avez écrit : Mike and Tracy (or, maybe just one of them) helped me with this exact problem, so maybe I can pass it along to you... First, are you using XFree86 3.3.6 or XFree86 4.0? If you're using XF86-4.0, then your problem is like mine, and you have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (note the "-4"). In the pointers section, add: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Also, if you want to use the wheely-mouse in Netscape, you'll need to use imwheel, but this is pissing me off at the moment as it changes everything else! --Greg Hi. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ but I do not understand why the wheel is not working on mandrake 7.1. On the Web site it is said that it should work, so can you help?? Thanks -- Steve Hammond __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) -- Steve Hammond
[newbie] Wheel mouse
Hi. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ but I do not understand why the wheel is not working on mandrake 7.1. On the Web site it is said that it should work, so can you help?? Thanks -- Steve Hammond
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
Mike and Tracy (or, maybe just one of them) helped me with this exact problem, so maybe I can pass it along to you... First, are you using XFree86 3.3.6 or XFree86 4.0? If you're using XF86-4.0, then your problem is like mine, and you have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (note the "-4"). In the pointers section, add: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Also, if you want to use the wheely-mouse in Netscape, you'll need to use imwheel, but this is pissing me off at the moment as it changes everything else! --Greg Hi. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ but I do not understand why the wheel is not working on mandrake 7.1. On the Web site it is said that it should work, so can you help?? Thanks -- Steve Hammond __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
In case you missed my earlier e-mail. Don't put in "Buttons 3" like the doc says. That made my wheel up work like a left click and wheel down like a middle or right click I can't remember which. I commented out the "Buttons 3" and my wheel mouse works like a champ. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Read the doc on changing the imwheelrc file. You can change the default of page up/down for the wheel to whatever you want it to be. Take care of the /tmp/imwheel.pid file like mentioned in another post so a user other than root works. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 2:09 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Well I do get wheel mouse now but only in root. It is also not very good, you turn on notch and the screen moves practically top to bottom. Not smooth. There must be ways to fix this but I can't find them. -Original Message- From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
James Little gave me detailed instructions that worked great for me. Here they are: 1 Open your autostart folder on your desktop. In it put a kdelink (application type) that contains the following lines: #!/bin/bash # Sets IMwheel and modem upon logon imwheel -k exit 0 2. As root change the /temp/imwheel.pid "file permissions" to your username. Otherwise I found that imwheel would not start except if I logged in as root because it could not manipulate the imwheel.pid file. Being a newbie, I used Midnight commander to change the file permissions. To start MC open a console and change to su (superuser which is equivalent to root) and then type mc and go from there. These instructions worked for me in KDE. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Gil Baron W0MN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:17 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Gildid you start imwheel? Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Well I do get wheel mouse now but only in root. It is also not very good, you turn on notch and the screen moves practically top to bottom. Not smooth. There must be ways to fix this but I can't find them. -Original Message- From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse I read the documents, put in the lines, rebooted with restart xserver NO JOY, still no wheel mouse. The things we have to live with with LINUX :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Gilread these docs /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
[newbie] Wheel Mouse
I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Beware the "Buttons 3". I know the imwheel doc says to use it but it made the wheel not work for me. I removed it and all works fine. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "John Couturier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Make sure you have the protocol in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file set to IMPS/2 and ZAxisMapping = 4 5. If your using XFree86 4.0 then it is in the InputDevice section like this. Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "3" 3.3.6 has the same things but I think it is in the "Pointers" section and just: Protocol=IMPS/2 ZAxisMapping=4 5 Buttons=3 But don't quote me on that. Edit the file and "When in Rome do as the Romans" whatever you input should mimick the current entries. The Quotes are required here. It sounds like you have a USB mouse but have it connected to a PS/2 port so it should work with the standard driver. By default Mandrake 7.1 install sets the mouse type to just PS/2 and that breaks the wheel stuff. I also had to edit /etc/X11/Xsession and comment out the part where they run imwheel -k and put my own line in just above it that says imwheel -k. Also because of problems witht he pid file I had to recompile the imwheel and make it suid root, or you could just set the suid bit on the imwheel binary. That is a security risk, but I wanted my wheel. I'm not sure how to run it without the SUID bit set. It does come with support but it doesn't do a good job of setting it up for you. Hope this helps. John -- Original Message -- From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:35:44 -0500 I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
-Original Message- From: John Couturier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Make sure you have the protocol in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file set to IMPS/2 and ZAxisMapping = 4 5. If your using XFree86 4.0 then it is in the InputDevice section like this. Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "3" 3.3.6 has the same things but I think it is in the "Pointers" section and just: Protocol=IMPS/2 ZAxisMapping=4 5 Buttons=3 But don't quote me on that. Edit the file and "When in Rome do as the Romans" whatever you input should mimick the current entries. The Quotes are required here. It sounds like you have a USB mouse but have it connected to a PS/2 port so it should work with the standard driver. By default Mandrake 7.1 install sets the mouse type to just PS/2 and that breaks the wheel stuff. I also had to edit /etc/X11/Xsession and comment out the part where they run imwheel -k and put my own line in just above it that says imwheel -k. Also because of problems witht he pid file I had to recompile the imwheel and make it suid root, or you could just set the suid bit on the imwheel binary. That is a security risk, but I wanted my wheel. I'm not sure how to run it without the SUID bit set. What is the pid file and how do I find and recompile and install again (if that is what is done ?) the imwheel program? How do I set that bit. I am not worried about security, this is just a hoe machine to play with. Of course does this mean I am always root and can accidentally destroy things, not good! ? I hope it gets better support and setup SOON. :-) By the way the optical sensor is THE BEST thing that ever happened to a mouse. ABSOLUTELY no problem with dirty wheels any more, and it is very precise motion, and needs no pad. If you do not have one, get it, you will be glad that you did. One of the two I have has two side buttons that you can program. Default is forward and back although I turn them off. I hit them too easily accidentally. It does come with support but it doesn't do a good job of setting it up for you. Hope this helps. John -- Original Message -- From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:35:44 -0500 I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
At 23:15 10.07.00, you wrote:
i only have one more user...like you.and it is member of the root
group..h...so this shouldnt be the source of my problem..
--quay
Depends upon how many users you have. I just have root and one user for
myself so far. I have added myself to the root group. That may be
working for me. I changed the lines in the XF86Config file too to get
it working.
Harry
Quaylar wrote:
At 11:41 10.07.00, you wrote:
hi harry/ralph
i was trying too what ralph described, but for some reason i cant start
imwheel as user.only as root.
typing imwheel -k as user results in following :
couldnt write pid to pid file : no permission
i already changed permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* with chown and
chgrp user, also $HOME/.imwheelrc
but problem remains..
srolling with mousewheel as root user works pretty good-would
appreciate doing it as normal user too.
hope u can help
--dave
Ralph,
Thanks for the info, this worked wonderfully. I did have one x-windows
crash since doing this, so I don't know if it's due to the mouse or
not. When it crashed to the console, I noticed that the mouse was able
to move the cursor around the screen of the console. Will keep an eye
on this.
I had tried all.including just putting imwheel in the autostart
folder. Deleting those lines and adding the one you said to was
perfect.
Harry
Ralph Day wrote:
That should be: "imwheel -k" in your Autostart folder
There are a few other things I've had to do to get imwheel to work.
First, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Find the lines follwing Section "Pointer"
Change the line that says Protocol "PS/2" to Protocol "imps/2"
Comment out the two lines using a # at the start of the line
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3TimeOut 50
Add a line:
ZAxisMapping 4 5
If you have a serial mouse, set the protocol line to "IntelliMouse" or
"Auto".
Don't add the line Buttons 3 to the XF86Config file like the doc
says. It
caused my PS/2 Intellimouse wheels buttons to act like left and middle
click.
Copy /etc/X11/imwheelrc to $HOME/.imwheelrc
HTH - Ralph
- Original Message -
From: "Andrew Scotchmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I
enable this under KDE?
Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it
possible
to use the wheel mouse under KDE?
Thanks.
Harry
Hi,
I use a microsoft intelli-mouse and have the wheel running perfectly.
Open autostart and place into it a new application.
Under execute type: imwheel %f
--
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Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
At 05:59 11.07.00, you wrote: Dave - The problem is that imwheel writes a file /tmp/imwheel.pid where it keeps track of the pid of imwheel so the "imwheel -k" command can be used to kill a currently running imwheel and start a new one. imwheel has a nasty habit of leaving its pid file around and it sets the user and group to the user creating it and permissions to rw for only the user creating it. So it sounds like you have an imwheel.pid file in /tmp that only root and read and write. hmm..the point is.im not even able to start it the first time as user.. so.according what u said..i should be able to start it once..?.dont i ? You have a couple of options. Note this is all theory as I only run with one user id and "su root" when I need to so I haven't had your problem. so every time u login with your user id and need imwheel u su and start it manually ? That said, you can "chmod a+rw /tmp/imwheel.pid" and hope imwheel doesn't manage to delete it or your system cleanup doesn't delete it. Or you can try using "imwheel -p" to forego writing the pid file. Then you takes your chances that you don't end up running two copies of imwheel and making things act goofy. This might happen if you put it in your autostart folder. A recent post about putting the imwheel command in the Xsession script might be a better idea for this option. Lastly, you could write a script that starts imwheel and does the "chmod a+rw /tmp/imwheel.pid" in case it is freshly created and put that in your autostart folder. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver At 11:41 10.07.00, you wrote: hi harry/ralph i was trying too what ralph described, but for some reason i cant start imwheel as user.only as root. typing imwheel -k as user results in following : couldnt write pid to pid file : no permission i already changed permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* with chown and chgrp user, also $HOME/.imwheelrc but problem remains.. srolling with mousewheel as root user works pretty good-would appreciate doing it as normal user too. hope u can help --dave
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
The date was 11 of July 2000, when was written: You have a couple of options. Note this is all theory as I only run with one user id and "su root" when I need to so I haven't had your problem. so every time u login with your user id and need imwheel u su and start it manually ? That would be rude! Even while I dont need it, inwheel is installed here in /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel and persmissions are set as [paul@internet paul]$ ls /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -l -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 45392 Apr 12 16:33 /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* Check this, and make sure that the x's are the same with you. The first from left is executable for root, the middle one is executable for group, the rightmost is executable for user. Paul -- Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. BEGIN IT NOW ! -Goethe )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
At 22:03 11.07.00, you wrote: The date was 11 of July 2000, when was written: You have a couple of options. Note this is all theory as I only run with one user id and "su root" when I need to so I haven't had your problem. so every time u login with your user id and need imwheel u su and start it manually ? That would be rude! Even while I dont need it, inwheel is installed here in /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel and persmissions are set as [paul@internet paul]$ ls /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -l -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 45392 Apr 12 16:33 /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* Check this, and make sure that the x's are the same with you. The first from left is executable for root, the middle one is executable for group, the rightmost is executable for user. hmm.they are indeed the same...permissions.. Paul -- Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. BEGIN IT NOW ! -Goethe )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Here is how I got it to work in 7.0. Upgrade to the latest version of imwheel then edit /etc/X11/Xsession and you'll see "(fg) Starting imwheel from here works" around line 78. I commented out the 3 lines under that and just put "/usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k" above it and it works. I think the key is upgrading to the latest version. Hope this helps. -- Original Message -- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:47:49 +0200 (CEST) On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Thanks for the info Paul. I have imwheel installed. It starts, but still I get no wheel support in KDE. Is the package supposed to be started before KDE comes up? I haven't tried that yet. Again, thanks. Harry As you may have seen or missed: another post stated to create a new option in the autostart folder, and execute "imwheel %f" in that. That should do it. (Can't check it, I use a trackball). Paul -- Quantity is no substitute for quality )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Glad I could help - its what the newbie list is all about. This one drove me crazy for a while too. I haven't had any X crashes with imwheel yet but I'm on LM 7.1 now which comes with a newer version of imwheel. I believe the ability to move the cursor around the console is a function of gpm, not X or imwheel so its probably unrelated to the crash. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Harry Flaxman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver Ralph, Thanks for the info, this worked wonderfully. I did have one x-windows crash since doing this, so I don't know if it's due to the mouse or not. When it crashed to the console, I noticed that the mouse was able to move the cursor around the screen of the console. Will keep an eye on this. I had tried all.including just putting imwheel in the autostart folder. Deleting those lines and adding the one you said to was perfect. Harry
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
At 11:41 10.07.00, you wrote: hi harry/ralph i was trying too what ralph described, but for some reason i cant start imwheel as user.only as root. typing imwheel -k as user results in following : couldnt write pid to pid file : no permission i already changed permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* with chown and chgrp user, also $HOME/.imwheelrc but problem remains.. srolling with mousewheel as root user works pretty good-would appreciate doing it as normal user too. hope u can help --dave Ralph, Thanks for the info, this worked wonderfully. I did have one x-windows crash since doing this, so I don't know if it's due to the mouse or not. When it crashed to the console, I noticed that the mouse was able to move the cursor around the screen of the console. Will keep an eye on this. I had tried all.including just putting imwheel in the autostart folder. Deleting those lines and adding the one you said to was perfect. Harry Ralph Day wrote: That should be: "imwheel -k" in your Autostart folder There are a few other things I've had to do to get imwheel to work. First, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config: Find the lines follwing Section "Pointer" Change the line that says Protocol "PS/2" to Protocol "imps/2" Comment out the two lines using a # at the start of the line Emulate3Buttons Emulate3TimeOut 50 Add a line: ZAxisMapping 4 5 If you have a serial mouse, set the protocol line to "IntelliMouse" or "Auto". Don't add the line Buttons 3 to the XF86Config file like the doc says. It caused my PS/2 Intellimouse wheels buttons to act like left and middle click. Copy /etc/X11/imwheelrc to $HOME/.imwheelrc HTH - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Andrew Scotchmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote: I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I enable this under KDE? Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible to use the wheel mouse under KDE? Thanks. Harry Hi, I use a microsoft intelli-mouse and have the wheel running perfectly. Open autostart and place into it a new application. Under execute type: imwheel %f -- Andrew -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Dave - The problem is that imwheel writes a file /tmp/imwheel.pid where it keeps track of the pid of imwheel so the "imwheel -k" command can be used to kill a currently running imwheel and start a new one. imwheel has a nasty habit of leaving its pid file around and it sets the user and group to the user creating it and permissions to rw for only the user creating it. So it sounds like you have an imwheel.pid file in /tmp that only root and read and write. You have a couple of options. Note this is all theory as I only run with one user id and "su root" when I need to so I haven't had your problem. That said, you can "chmod a+rw /tmp/imwheel.pid" and hope imwheel doesn't manage to delete it or your system cleanup doesn't delete it. Or you can try using "imwheel -p" to forego writing the pid file. Then you takes your chances that you don't end up running two copies of imwheel and making things act goofy. This might happen if you put it in your autostart folder. A recent post about putting the imwheel command in the Xsession script might be a better idea for this option. Lastly, you could write a script that starts imwheel and does the "chmod a+rw /tmp/imwheel.pid" in case it is freshly created and put that in your autostart folder. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver At 11:41 10.07.00, you wrote: hi harry/ralph i was trying too what ralph described, but for some reason i cant start imwheel as user.only as root. typing imwheel -k as user results in following : couldnt write pid to pid file : no permission i already changed permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel* with chown and chgrp user, also $HOME/.imwheelrc but problem remains.. srolling with mousewheel as root user works pretty good-would appreciate doing it as normal user too. hope u can help --dave
[newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I enable this under KDE? Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible to use the wheel mouse under KDE? Thanks. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I enable this under KDE? Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible to use the wheel mouse under KDE? Log in as root, (or do "su"), find "imwheelrpm" on the distro-cd and install that with rpm -i path/imwheel...rpm (or use kpackage / GnoRPM) Sure it is possible, after installing this. Paul -- In every loss there is gain, as there is gain in every loss... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote: I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I enable this under KDE? Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible to use the wheel mouse under KDE? Thanks. Harry Hi, I use a microsoft intelli-mouse and have the wheel running perfectly. Open autostart and place into it a new application. Under execute type: imwheel %f -- Andrew
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Thanks for the info Paul. I have imwheel installed. It starts, but still I get no wheel support in KDE. Is the package supposed to be started before KDE comes up? I haven't tried that yet. Again, thanks. Harry Paul wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I enable this under KDE? Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible to use the wheel mouse under KDE? Log in as root, (or do "su"), find "imwheelrpm" on the distro-cd and install that with rpm -i path/imwheel...rpm (or use kpackage / GnoRPM) Sure it is possible, after installing this. Paul -- In every loss there is gain, as there is gain in every loss... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
Harryhave you read the files in this directory? /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Harry Flaxman wrote: Thanks for the info Paul. I have imwheel installed. It starts, but still I get no wheel support in KDE. Is the package supposed to be started before KDE comes up? I haven't tried that yet. Again, thanks. Harry Paul wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: I know that Mandrake 7.0 comes with a wheel mouse driver. How do I enable this under KDE? Supposedly, that was one of the last updates was for it. Is it possible to use the wheel mouse under KDE? Log in as root, (or do "su"), find "imwheelrpm" on the distro-cd and install that with rpm -i path/imwheel...rpm (or use kpackage / GnoRPM) Sure it is possible, after installing this. Paul -- In every loss there is gain, as there is gain in every loss... )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Thanks for the info Paul. I have imwheel installed. It starts, but still I get no wheel support in KDE. Is the package supposed to be started before KDE comes up? I haven't tried that yet. Again, thanks. Harry As you may have seen or missed: another post stated to create a new option in the autostart folder, and execute "imwheel %f" in that. That should do it. (Can't check it, I use a trackball). Paul -- Quantity is no substitute for quality )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] [Newbie]Wheel Mouse is working but need more help
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Adriaan Barel wrote: The solution would then be to create a file like that. Open an editor (no name given, there are many), write imwheel -k on the first line, and save it as ~/.xinitrc Voila. That should do it. Paul Hi Every One, I just got my wheel working on my PS/2 mouse by following instructions at www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html and in addition editing out two lines that enable 3 button emulation. The file edited was /etc/X11/XF86Config. I am running Version 7.02 of Linux Mandrake. My problem is that after editing the file I'm told to "Restart X, run imwheel -k and everything should work fine now" Well it does but then I'm told to "add this command to your `.xinitrc` or `.xsessionrc` to have it executed automatically on every X startup." What are they talking about; I can't find any files in those names and when I do a file search I get "file found" "/" for both of them. What do I do now. Many Thanks Adriaan -- When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming like the passengers in his car. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] [Newbie]Wheel Mouse is working but need more help
Adriaan, I didn't have any luck when I created the .xinitrc file so what I did was created a link to /user/X11R6/bin/imwheel in my Autostart folder on my desktop. But before it would work as user I had to give users permission to read and write to /tmp/imwheel.pid I then restarted X and logged back in and it worked! Good luck Trevor Paul wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Adriaan Barel wrote: The solution would then be to create a file like that. Open an editor (no name given, there are many), write imwheel -k on the first line, and save it as ~/.xinitrc Voila. That should do it. Paul Hi Every One, I just got my wheel working on my PS/2 mouse by following instructions at www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html and in addition editing out two lines that enable 3 button emulation. The file edited was /etc/X11/XF86Config. I am running Version 7.02 of Linux Mandrake. My problem is that after editing the file I'm told to "Restart X, run imwheel -k and everything should work fine now" Well it does but then I'm told to "add this command to your `.xinitrc` or `.xsessionrc` to have it executed automatically on every X startup." What are they talking about; I can't find any files in those names and when I do a file search I get "file found" "/" for both of them. What do I do now. Many Thanks Adriaan -- When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming like the passengers in his car. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] wheel mouse
I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel. Anyone know where I can find info for configurating it. I am using Mandrake 7. Thank You in advance, Dan
Re: [newbie] wheel mouse
Edit the lines in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the Pointer section to look like this: Section "Pointer" Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Put a copy of /etc/X11/imwheelrc in your /home/user directory, and finally put a link in your autostart folder (in KDE) to /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k Restart 'X' and you should be good to go. Mike Dan wrote: I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel. Anyone know where I can find info for configurating it. I am using Mandrake 7. Thank You in advance, Dan -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] wheel mouse
Dan/usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.6/ Alan Dan wrote: I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel. Anyone know where I can find info for configurating it. I am using Mandrake 7. Thank You in advance, Dan
[newbie] wheel mouse
Is there any way to use my wheel on my mouse? (It is a Fujitsu wheel mouse). Thanks for your hit! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de General notions are generally wrong. -- Lady M.W. Montagu
Re: [newbie] wheel mouse
Claus/usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.6/ Alan Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Is there any way to use my wheel on my mouse? (It is a Fujitsu wheel mouse). Thanks for your hit! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de General notions are generally wrong. -- Lady M.W. Montagu
Re: [newbie] wheel mouse
Okay. Here's where I am. I've read through the readme and tried to make the required changes. But whenever I switched from the PS/2 to IMPS/2 in the XFConfig and restarted KDE my mouse stops working properly (moving and clicking on its own). I don't know if I forgot to do something, did something wrong or what. Any Ideas? -- Nic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Eunice Thompson wrote: thanks Alan - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse Eunicehere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works OK. I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? Thanks for your help Thanks from me too. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first for setup.
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All I did was made an application icon on the desktop and where the name of the program to be executed goes I wrote: "imwheel -k", clicked OK. Then I dragged (ie. drag 'n' drop) this icon into the autostart folder icon on the desktop. It worked. I now use IceWM as wm and KDM (for the sake of my family) to log in and I can't figure out a way to automatically start it. Istvan Alan Shoemaker wrote: Eunicehere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works OK. I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? Thanks for your help -- = | === Istvan Bronowiecki - Melbourne, Australia | Powered by Linux 2.2.14 = | === Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends (G. Bernard Shaw)
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thanks Alan - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse Eunicehere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works OK. I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? Thanks for your help
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Nicholashere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Nicholas Imfeld wrote: I just joined this list and have been kind of following the wheel mouse responses, but I missed the first few. Can someone tell me how to initially set up Linux so that the wheel can be used? I appreciate any help.
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Thanks for the reply. I did what you suggested and it did work - to a certain degree. Now when I spin the wheel the cursor moves up and down on the screen, Is that all that it can do or is something else to get the wheel to act as it does in windows? On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote: Nicholashere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Nicholas Imfeld wrote: I just joined this list and have been kind of following the wheel mouse responses, but I missed the first few. Can someone tell me how to initially set up Linux so that the wheel can be used? I appreciate any help. -- Nic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Try adding the line imwheel -k to your .xinitrc file. Put that line before the other line that's already there. If there's more than one line in it, put it before the last one. On Feb 29 Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works OK. I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? Thanks for your help -- Rial Juan http://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel: (++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org Unix IS user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. -- Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
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Eunicehere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works OK. I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? Thanks for your help
[newbie] Wheel Mouse
I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse product number 83351-577- What does it take to make the wheel part of it work? Chris Reeder Moscow, Idaho __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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ChrisUse imwheel. It is a program included on the 6.1 mandrake cd. Alan Chris and Jennifer Reeder wrote: I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse product number 83351-577- What does it take to make the wheel part of it work? Chris Reeder Moscow, Idaho __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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Chris and Jennifer Reeder wrote: I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse product number 83351-577- What does it take to make the wheel part of it work? Chris Reeder Moscow, Idaho __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com in 6.1 install there is a package called imwheel(?) i think. install this package.
