My mouse has a fancy wheel and buttons. Can I use them in FreeBSD?
Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X and 4.XThe answer is, unfortunately, ''It depends''. These mice with additional features require specialized driver in most cases. Unless the mouse device driver or the user program has specific support for the mouse, it will act just like a standard two, or three button mouse.
My mouse has a fancy wheel. Can I use it in X?
FreeBSD Documentation - Chapter 11 The X Window System and V...Yes. But you need to customize X client programs. See Colas Nahaboo's web page (http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/) . The imwheel program works by translating mouse button 4 and mouse button 5 events into key events. Thus, you have to get the mouse driver to translate mouse wheel events to button 4 and 5 events. There are two ways of doing this, the first way is to have moused(8) do the translation. The second way is for the X server itself to do the event translation.
Can I use a wheel mouse in the program?
Schedule-HR Software Technologies. - Frequently Asked Questi...Yes! Schedule-HR will work with a wheel mouse; just make sure you install the software that was provided with your mouse.
What are the very small buttons on either side of the steering wheel for?
Volkswagen Touareg Frequently-Asked QuestionsThe small button on the left side toggles the lights in the steering wheel. The button on the right toggles the steering wheel heat, if the vehicle is so equipped. When turned on, the steering wheel heater will maintain the steering wheel at 77 degrees F.
How do I set up the mouse buttons for left-handed use?
tinyX Window System Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ListThanks to "ulisses" for suggesting this question for the FAQ, and providing some of the information given.) This depends on how many buttons your mouse has. If it has two or three, I have an answer. If it has more than three, and/or a wheel, I'd appreciate submissions from lefties with such mice who have gotten them reconfigured. To have the pointer buttons remapped for all of your X sessions, add the following line to your $HOME/.
I want to use the steering wheel buttons. How?
Angry Kitchen Appliances: Saab 9-5 Audio FAQThe buttons in the steering wheel is made from six/eight switches and seven/nine resistors connected in series. The switches connects the points between the resistors to a common wire. A seventh/tenth switch connects over all resistors and is used for the horn. Note that four wires connect the steering wheel to the instrument panel wireing. Two of them are for the AIRBAG. Do NOT connect test instruments to the airbag wires! The switch/resistor network is connected to the SID.
How to I get the mouse wheel to work?
UT Physics Linux FAQSupport for the Microsoft Intellimouse is enabled in our X Windows setup by default; however, you must configure a few extra options in your ~/.Xdefaults file in order to get it to work with some applications (such as Netscape). You can find the text to be added on the Colas Nahaboo X mouse wheel scroll page. Simply copy the text for the application program(s) you require, paste it into your ~/.
When I use the mouse wheel the map gets distorted. Why ?
Electoral College Calculator - version 2.2This seems to be caused by a bug in Internet Explorer. The only solution I have found is to not use the mouse wheel.
How can I configure VirtuaWin to use the wheel mouse to change desktops?
VirtuaWin - Virtual Desktops for WindowsThe short answer is you can't. A deliberate design decision has been made to not introduce system hooks that can affect the reliability and responsiveness of both VirtuaWin and your computer. So VirtuaWin has no built in mouse wheel support.
How can I use my wheel pins?
The SNOW BLOWER Shop, FAQMany models used these pins with round bails for securing the wheels to the axels. By moving the pins the machine could be made to freewheel. By moving one pin the machine could be rendered one wheel drive for easier handling in light duty. Many machines included this click pin feature. In this picture the pin passes through the wheel and the axle causing power to be transmitted.
Why does scrolling with the mouse wheel not operate on some computers?
EADS N.V. - FAQs - Frequently Asked QuestionsTo date, there’s no “genuine” mouse wheel support in Geogrid products. Operation of the mouse wheel is purely coincidental, depending on the mouse driver installed. The next version of Geogrid (e.g. in the Top50 Version 5) will include scrolling with the mouse wheel and the “hand symbol” for moving the map.
How can I enable scrolling with the wheel of my mouse?
The Arch Linux FAQIn most cases you only need to add Option ''ZAxisMapping'' ''4 5'' to the InputDevice section of your XF86Config. If that does not do the trick, try this6link for more resources and instructions. You upgraded to XFree 4.3.0 or higher. Run fc-cache as root to (re)build the font cache, and things should be fine. I'd recommend getting the latest self-installing driver package from http://www.nvidia.com and read the official README thoroughly as most problems are handled in it.
How do I get the scroll wheel on my mouse to work?
Thinstation FAQ ::Assuming the server and the server software application supports the scroll wheel, all you have to do is to change one line in the thinstation.conf:
What is FreeBSD?
Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X, 4.X and 5.XBriefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX® like operating system for the i386™, IA-64, PC-98, Alpha/AXP, and UltraSPARC® platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's ''4.4BSD-Lite'' release, with some ''4.4BSD-Lite2'' enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's ''Net/2'' to the i386, known as ''386BSD'', though very little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.
My mouse has a wheel, but it's not working, what's up with that?
Linux Gamers' FAQMake sure you're using the proper protocol for your mouse, most of the new optical mice use the "IMPS/2" protocol. As defined by your xorg.conf's InputDevice section. The instructions for the next answer won't work if the proper protocol isn't being used. If you're using XFree86 version 4.x, or X.Org at all, put this in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XF86Config): It's pretty simple. Change your mouse configuration section in XF86Config or xorg.
edit] Q) How do I set up a wheel mouse?
Slackware-FAQ - LQWikiIn X, a scroll wheel counts as three buttons - up is one, down is another. Clicking the wheel is a third button. You then just need to add these two lines under the mouse section (usually 'Identifier "Mouse1"' or something similar). For a 7 button mouse, you also need to create the file /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap and put the following in it for the wheel to be mapped onto the right buttons:
