how to use the third mouse button as a wheel [solved]

BlinkEye · Last edited by BlinkEye on Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:54 pm; edited 1 time in total

i've found many topics about how to use your wheel or how to use your additional buttons of an external mouse - but i haven't found any help about how to use the third button of your laptop mouse (IBM Thinkpad X40) not as the middlemouse button like the one of a external mouse but as a wheel.
xev gives me the following:

jinxos · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:31 am Post subject: Thinkpad wheel

I own a ThinkPad R40 and it works like a charm ;-)

...oh yes, here's how:

BlinkEye · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

many thanks to your answer. i'm really glad i got it working now because i myself am a fan of a Trackpoint - as fast as a regular mouse.

just for the notes, to achieve to use your built in mouse AND an external usb mouse add an entry similar to the following (becomes handy particularly with a suspend option with a 2.6. kernel as you may have to restart hotplug or for >= 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 you simply have to unplug and plug in the external mouse - but that doensn't work for a built in mouse, does it?) to your xfree86.conf or xorg.conf:

jinxos · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

I think you lose it again because:
1) You assign the two devices the same protocol (not that it makes much diff but try to use PS/2 instead for the TrackPoint

2) Since SendCoreEvents is enabled you should use /dev/input/mouseX for the USB external rodent. /dev/input/mice is a virtual device used by X to aggregate the input events from all devices! Therefore it would seem that you assign the ZAxisMapping option to all your mice... not what you want is it?

For more info on mice input X handling you can have a look at the Wacom HOWTO page... it's very easy to understand...

I use a 2.6.6-rc1-mm kernel and occasionally use a Wacom Volito tablet and had no problems whatsoever with my config (no pressure info from the tablet though, but thats because I don't use the wacom driver but the built in X one)

hope this helps...

BlinkEye · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:45 am Post subject:

thanks, i think i'm directed into the right direction.
current state

jinxos · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:00 am Post subject:

I only use a wacom tablet sorry...

BlinkEye · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject:

as i've gotten myself offtopic i continued my problem here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1271770#1271770 and marked this topic as solved
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