Re: PS 2 Wheel Mouse Problem
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:12, Christian Banik wrote:
> Dear Debian Users,
>
> i've got problems with my wheel mouse. I wrote the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file
> myself (no concept of some of the entries there)in parts.
> It worked 2 weeks very good, but now the mouse arrow freeze after 30 seconds
> under X11. I've added my XF86 Config file, perhaps you see my mistake. The
> configured and generic mouse are both necessary i realized.
> Under SuSE the same mouse is OK, so it's not a hardware problem
>
...
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
You only need one of the above sections.
Device="/dev/input/mice" is for USB mice.
Device="/dev/psaux" is for PS/2 mice.
(I would expect that a 2-button mouse is PS/2 rather than USB)
Also, for a 2-button mouse, the protocol should be "PS/2"
("ImPS/2" is for wheel mice).
Hope this helps...
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