Re: More mouse wheel problems

[Alex]

The mouse is in USB in both cases. I'll see if I can dig up my USB <-> PS/2
converter and try the mouse in PS/2 mode. But in this case, the mouse stayed
plugged into USB the whole time.
-Alex

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:05:23PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:24:48PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I know mouse wheel problems have been discussed, but I am still having them
> > even with the proper fixes. I have a generic-looking IBM optical wheel USB
> > mouse, Model Number MO28B0 (O's could be zeros and vice versa).
> > 
> > In the 2.4 kernels, the USB mouse would register with the following message:
> > Nov  4 03:53:16 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
> > Nov  4 03:53:16 localhost kernel: input0: ARROW STRONG USB 3D Mouse on usb1:3.0
> > Nov  4 03:53:16 localhost kernel: usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
> > 
> > Once I upgraded to 2.6.2, the mouse is identified as follows:
> > Feb  4 12:29:07 localhost kernel: input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> 
> You moved the mouse from USB to PS/2 between the kernel upgrade? Where
> the mouse doesn't work properly - on USB or PS/2? They're wildly
> different interfaces and the mouse is using a different protocol on
> either.
> 
> > 
> > The problem is that the mouse wheel does not work. My XF86Config-4 contains:
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
> >         Driver          "mouse"
> >         Option          "CorePointer"
> >         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mouse0"
> >         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
> >         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > I have tried with ExplorerPS/2 as suggested before, as well as with /dev/input/mice.
> > 
> > Trying to perform some diagnostics, I used hexdump and cat to look at the
> > output of /dev/input/mouse0 and /dev/input/mice. In both cases, the devices
> > produced quite a lot of output for mouse movement and button presses - for
> > all three buttons - but no output whatsoever for wheel movements. Does this
> > mean that the problem is with the kernel?
> > 
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Alex Khripin
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> -- 
> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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