ezroller Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 I have no idea how to explain this properly, but my mouse keeps losing its "scroll up" functionality on the wheel. scroll down works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 Umm... Does it work OK on "another" OS ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 have you cleaned it recently? :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 This happened to me before, I had to push the wheel in and turn it to make it scroll up. I can't remember for the life of me what I did to fix it, but all of a sudden it went away. I think perhaps it was when I went from 9.0 to 9.1, but I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 finger-jam ? :lol: Just watch out for that little spring-like thing (if you dismantle it), which, I guess, could be the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted July 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 its an optical/wireless. and even better, attached to a KVM. I'll spare you what happens when I switch from BeOS/Windows/OSX to linux. anyways. I went to mcc and changed to a standard 3 button mouse, and it seems ok for now, but I always lose it at random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted July 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 still having the prolem. its pissing me off now, since its in every program now that I have the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 KVM's can be kind of flaky. have you tried plugging it directly into the system, and using it like that for a while? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted July 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 I just went and grabbed a regular analog mouse from the lab and plugged that into the kvm. now i have functionality back. I'm just gonna stay with this and put the wireless setup on my servers kvm. that'll be better anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 Actually i have a M$ intellimouse and i don't have the scroll functionality at all. Whe i change the mouse to a Wheel mouse in mandrake install it would stuff up and be unusable, so i'd change it back to standard and it'd still be unusable, so i haven't changed it!!! I've left it standard. It's not an explorer. No optical. (my optical has a f**ked cable) James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 rcxau: open up your XF86Config-4, go to the mouse section, look for the protocol line: Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" key here being the IMPS/2. now, add this line: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" to the mouse section. 4 5 works for me, but if it doesn't for you try 6 7 as that may work better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 If you have 5 buttons (3 buttons and the wheel is 2), you can also specify Option "Buttons" "5" I have Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 i have a 4th button on my mouse that actually has a neat side effect. in windows it's supposed to change from one open program to another (i got it after my switch to linux-only so no clue if it does this or not!), but in linux, if i highlight a line of text i can then past it by clicking said button-without pressing ctrl+c or ctrl+v. and i never added a 4th button functionality :shock: so i assume it's just some odd interpretation of instructions or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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