Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

I bought a new mouse for my laptop and it has a horizontal scrolling feature and ofcourse I want it to work in Ubuntu. (6.06). So this is what I did. I had found a really good page describing what to do to get this working. HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide

In short, I've done the following steps

• sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev

• Editted the cat /etc/udev/rules.d/19-local.rules

KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{../name}=="Logitech USB Optical Mouse", NAME="input/event9"

• Editted the xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event9" #this should be that underlined name from 19-local.rules
Option "HWHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6" # Makes scrolling more naturel
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

• restart your computer, to take the udev rules into affect, and enjoy the horizontal scrolling.