Mandrake 10 b2 PS/2 Wheel mouse doesn't work?

[Lord Kenneth]

For some reason it's not detecting the ever-helpful scroll wheel. It did in 9.2, but it's not now. I tried configuring it in the config tool for mice but that didn't help at all.

[Xeroid]

To get your mouse wheel to work in Linux, sometimes you must edit your etc/X11/XF86Config file.

 

First part of the original XF86Config file that deals with the mouse operation:

 

Section "InputDevice"

 

# Identifier and driver

 

    Identifier "Mouse1"

    Driver "mouse"

    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"

    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

 

Look for the above part ^ ^ about half way down in your XF86Config file. You need to open the XF86Config file with a text editor like Kate in order to change it.

 

And now the new edited part of the file:

 

Section "InputDevice"

 

# Identifier and driver

 

    Identifier "Mouse1"

    Driver "mouse"

    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"

    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

 

I have highlighted in red the parts of the file that needed to be added.

 

Notice the IM that was added in front of PS/2? That is the part that frequently gets overlooked. :D

[Lord Kenneth]

Huh. It started working now. Maybe I just needed to reboot or something? Not sure why that did it. Odd. Oh, well.

[Ixthusdan]

Mandrake is using an auto mouse setting. It's still flakey!. I swithced to ps/2 wheel mouse, and the irregularities stopped. So the problem is the new auto detect mouse setting.

[tyme]

To get your mouse wheel to work in Linux, sometimes you must edit your etc/X11/XF86Config file.

for future reference, in Mandrake, the file used is actually /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

 

some distributions use XF86Config, but Mandrake and a few select others use XF86Config-4

[Xeroid]

Thanks for pointing that out tyme. I'm currently using SuSE 9.0 and it uses XF86Config.

 

Mike :D