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Re: Wheelmouse



Hint when changing mouse protocol settings in XF86Config:

Older versions of X - up to 4.2.1 - have broken PS/2 mouse
initialisation code that doesn't reset the mouse. With some mice, this
screws up the mouse's response to its initialisation string. The
result is that changing the protocol setting in XF86Config appears not
to work.

The cure is to reset the mouse by hand:

  echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux
  
from the console, before restarting X.

This problem along with the dodgy mouse autodetection code was fixed
fairly soon after X 4.2.1, so 4.3 is OK.

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