Re: More mouse wheel problems

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:29:31PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> 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.

Then you forgot to load the USB drivers and the BIOS is doing
emulation of a PS/2 mouse. That'd explain the wheel problem, too.
You need to load the USB (uhci/ohci-hcd, and hid) drivers.

> -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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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