Re: Wheel mouse

[Cam Ellison <camellison@dccnet.com>]

* Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 09:58:09PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> > * csj (csj@mindgate.net) wrote:
> > > On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:17:27 -0600
> > > Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> > > 
<snip>
> > So what are your settings?  I have one on my kids' machine, and it is as 
> > flaky as can be.
> 
> If you're talking about the Logitech Optical Mouse, I have several and
> with one exception found them easy to set up and get working.
> 
> My XF86Config-4 has
> 
>   Section "InputDevice"
>           Identifier  "Logitech Optical Mouse M-BJ58"
>           Driver      "mouse"
>           Option      "Buttons"        "5"
>           Option      "CorePointer"
>           Option      "Device"         "/dev/misc/psaux"
>           Option      "Protocol"       "IMPS/2"
>           Option      "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
>   EndSection
> 
> However, I did have one machine with an el-cheapo athlon motherboard
> that would freak out if the optical mouse was plugged into it, usb or
> ps/2.  What was really strange is that this problem occurred in linux 
> and Win2k, and not with other mice! Finally I got pawned that system
> board off to someone who uses an intellimouse (and windows) instead.
> 
>
Thanks, Nathan.  That confirms most of what I have been seeing.  I set it up as per yours above, and it works like a dam.  Wiping out gpm helped, I think.  One weird (?) thing I noticed that probably caused much of the problem was the presence of two mice in XF86Config-4: a generic and the Logitech.  Both were listed as live.  Naturally, I have it set for one only.

Thanks for the assistance.

Cam

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