| Fix Your Mouse Wheel... 
Posted: 6 Apr 2005
Sometimes the wheel of your mouse can just stop working for no apparent
reason, and I've got to admit; it can be quite a nuisance.
I've come up
with a way to fix it.
choose your mouse through YASTOpen YAST Control Center and choose
Hardware -> Mouse Model. Select the mouse in the list that matches your mouse
the closest. For my portable USB 'Mini Optical Mouse' I chose the 'Intelli/Wheel
mouse (USB)'. After any changes you make, click the 'Test' button to verify your
mouse still works.
Once you selected/verified your selection, click
'Accept'. You can now go ahead and close the YAST Control Center.
Your
mouse isn't fixed quite yet... We're now going to edit an internal file to make
sure your mouse behaves as it should.
edit your xorg.conf fileOpen a Terminal window and 'su' to 'root'. We
are now going to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Before we make any
changes, let's back that file up. If you are not sure how to do this, enter this
simple command in your terminal:
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup |
*note*
In order to do this successfully, you need to be root.
Now go ahead and
open the original /etc/X11/xorg.conf in your favorite editor. You'll need to
locate the Section named InputDevice inside xorg.conf with the subsequent
line reading Driver 'mouse'.
At the end of that Section, add the
following line:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" |
And
that should do the trick.
My 'Intelli/Wheel mouse (USB)' mouse section in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this:
Example:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "PS/2 Generic Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection |
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