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mouse



Upon install of Red Hat 7.1, my wireless logitech wheel mouse worked 
correctly.  I did not have to do any further configuration.

Regards,

jlk


>From: "Brian J. Conway" <dogbert at clue4all.net>
>To: Rob Ransbottom <rir at mediaone.net>
>CC: <discuss at Blu.Org>
>Subject: Re: mouse
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:26:55 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > A wheel can be clicked.  So should I be getting a three button
> > mouse, or using the wheel as the third button?  Is a wheel
> > just an ornament in X?
>
>Wheel mice in X are actually 5 button mice (assuming a normal wheel mouse
>and not those feature 9 or 10 buttons).  Buttons 1 and 2 function as
>normal, clicking the wheel is 3, and 4 and 5 are for scroll up and down (I
>forget which is which).  Most distro's 'mouseconfig' will set them up
>correctly, including XF86Config files, and I've never had an issue getting
>mine to work.
>
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