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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: :-@  Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:18:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A57BE1F.4060506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h38ea0$5b6$1@ger.gmane.org>

walt wrote:
> On 07/10/2009 11:12 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>> ...
>> It sees the mouse and says the option for the wheel is there.  It just
>> don't work...
>
> I can't remember if anyone has mentioned xev yet.  On my machine with
> the bog-standard M$ Optical Mouse (2-buttons+wheel) when I put the mouse
> cursor in the xev window and rotate the wheel, I see button4 events for
> scroll up and button5 for scroll down.
>
> If you don't have xev just 'emerge xev' (of course ;).
>
>
>

I got it working.  I ran xorgcfg and let it redo the xorg.conf file.  It
works now.  Well, I have to reset my screen reslolution and such but the
wheel works.  I'm on a roll now.  LOL

Thanks for the help tho.  No more evdev for me, unless I get it mastered
on my second install or something. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 16:13 [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev Dale
2009-07-10 17:23 ` Marc Joliet
2009-07-10 18:12   ` Dale
2009-07-10 22:11     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-10 22:18       ` Dale [this message]
2009-07-10 17:43 ` [gentoo-user] " James Ausmus
2009-07-10 18:31   ` Dale
2009-07-10 18:42     ` James Ausmus
2009-07-10 20:43       ` Dale
2009-07-10 20:55         ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-10 21:04           ` Dale
2009-07-10 21:10             ` James Ausmus
2009-07-10 21:25               ` Dale
2009-07-10 22:04               ` [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev. [SOLVED] Dale
2009-07-10 22:28                 ` James Ausmus
2009-07-10 22:52                   ` Dale
2009-07-10 23:06                     ` James Ausmus
2009-07-11  0:06                       ` Dale
2009-07-10 18:41 ` [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev Paul Hartman
2009-07-10 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-11 11:43 ` [gentoo-user] " pk
2009-07-11 19:31   ` Dale
2009-07-12  7:16     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-12  7:44       ` Dale

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