Re: getting PS/2 wheelmouse's scrollwheel to work on Thinkpad 600?
mouse scrolls fine on my thinkpad R52
relevant section from xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Takis
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 17:41 -0700, Eric De Mund wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've never gotten the scrollwheel on my PS/2 wheelmouse to work on my
> IBM Thinkpad 600 running Debian 4.0r0, and I'd really like to be able to
> use it. What magical incantations am I missing from /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> or elsewhere?
>
> The physical mouse works just fine; I've moved it onto another Debian
> system (a desktop system), and all its buttons and its scrollwheel
> worked just fine over there (there, xev(1) reported that scrollwheel
> forward is button 4, and scrollwheel back is button 5).
>
> The /etc/X11/xorg.conf on my laptop has sections:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> EndSection
>
> I've also tried sections:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> EndSection
>
> I'm using KDE, and the applications that don't scroll in response to the
> scrollwheel are:
>
> o rxvt
> o IceWeasel
> o Emacs
>
> Interestingly, xev(1) prints events out in response to all mouse events
> except scrollwheel forward and scrollwheel back:
>
> o yes mouse movement
> o yes left mouse button down
> o yes left mouse button up
> o yes right mouse button down
> o yes right mouse button up
> o yes scrollwheel "button" down
> o yes scrollwheel "button" up
> o no scrollwheel forward
> o no scrollwheel back
>
> I have only the psmouse and not the mousedev module loaded:
>
> % lsmod | fgrep mouse
> psmouse 35016 0
> %
>
> Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
> --
> "Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear. But only the
> wisest of cats would think to look there." --Scott Love
>
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