trackball

[John Shane]

Jack, I may not understand your problem correcly, so overlook this if
it's totally off the mark, but I use a USB Logitech scroll mouse with my
laptop and it works fine.  Also, my built in mouse (eraser stub in the
keyboard) works simultaneously with the Logitech.  The laptop is an IBM
X30.  I can wheel on a title bar or desktop and Xfce4 works as expected.
 I don't have to hold down either the right or left mouse keys.  I've
copied my XF86Config below in case it's of any help.  John

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"

	# Load  "record"	# X event recorder
	# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
	# Load  "freetype"	 # TrueType font handler
	# Load  "type1"		# Adobe Type 1 font handler
	Load  "dbe"		# Double-buffering
	Load  "GLcore"		# OpenGL support
	Load  "dri"		# Direct rendering infrastructure
	Load  "glx"		# OpenGL X protocol interface
	Load  "extmod"		# Misc. required extensions
	Load  "v4l"		# Video4Linux
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option	    "Protocol" "PS/2"
	Option	    "CorePointer" "true"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse1"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons"
	Option	    "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
	VendorName   "Unknown"
	ModelName    "VM7E"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 130.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "i810"
	VendorName  "Intel Corp."
	BoardName   "Intel 830"
	ChipSet     "i830M"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Linux Frame Buffer"
	Driver      "fbdev"
	BoardName   "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode         0666
EndSection


On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:34:38 -0800
Jack Coates <jack at monkeynoodle.org> wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> I just bought a logitech usb trackman wheel mouse.
> 
> Mandrake 9.2's mousedrake utility set it up like so:
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Mouse1"
>     Driver "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>     Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>     Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Mouse2"
>     Driver "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol" "auto"
>     Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>     Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> I presume that the fact both point to /dev/mouse is why the laptop's
> internal touchpad no longer works, but I'll burn that bridge later.
> 
> My question for this list is, why would the mousewheel work for
> scrolling within a window, but not work for xfdesktop-type or
> xfwm-type scrolling? That is, when I wheel on a title bar or on the
> desktop, focus stays within the last text window I was scrolling.
> 
> I get the expected behavior if I click though. So on a titlebar, I
> have to hold the right mousebutton down and roll the wheel; on the
> desktop I have to hold the left button down and roll the wheel.
> 
> thanks,
> -- 
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