Re: More mouse wheel problems

[Vojtech Pavlik]

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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