Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

Steve Adams

24 Jun 2004 24 Jun '04

16:05

I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve Adams

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Alex

24 Jun 24 Jun

16:09

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thursday 24 June 2004 18:05, Steve Adams wrote:

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

Thanks, Steve Adams You use the wrong protocol. -> init 3 and start sax2 There you choose your mouse.

init 5 and have a lot of fun Al

peter Nikolic

21:38

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thursday 24 Jun 2004 17:09, Alex wrote:

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On Thursday 24 June 2004 18:05, Steve Adams wrote:

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

Thanks, Steve Adams You use the wrong protocol. -> init 3 and start sax2 There you choose your mouse.

init 5 and have a lot of fun

Al

Sax2 asking for problems there ... barge pole fodder -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan PGN

Ed Harrison

16:30

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

** Reply to message from Steve Adams on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:05:00 -0400

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

In 9.1,I think you will find that changes to the mouse configurations (and all X for that matter) are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, instead of XF86Config, as in 8.2. I didn't have one (I guess that YaST doesn't create it, for some reason). I copied (cp) XF86Config to xorg.conf and the settings were there on the next X start. I guess you could try sym-linking xorg.conf to XF86Config, but I didn't. Now, I make changes manually to xorg.conf. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.5-17.14-default PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Steve Adams

18:15

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:30, Ed Harrison wrote:

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** Reply to message from Steve Adams on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:05:00 -0400

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

In 9.1,I think you will find that changes to the mouse configurations (and all X for that matter) are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, instead of XF86Config, as in 8.2.

I didn't have one (I guess that YaST doesn't create it, for some reason). I copied (cp) XF86Config to xorg.conf and the settings were there on the next X start. I guess you could try sym-linking xorg.conf to XF86Config, but I didn't.

Now, I make changes manually to xorg.conf.

Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.5-17.14-default PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Thanks to both Alex and Ed Harrison for responding to my message. Unfortunately, neither suggestion worked for me. Instead, it seems to be a problem with the Raritan KVM switch I'm using (or the cables). When I plug in directly to the box, it recognizes the mouse and the wheel works fine. When I go back to the KVM switch, it reverts back to being broken. Bummer. Everything was working great on 8.2. Steve

Alex

18:25

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thursday 24 June 2004 20:15, Steve Adams wrote:

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On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:30, Ed Harrison wrote:

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** Reply to message from Steve Adams on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:05:00 -0400

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

In 9.1,I think you will find that changes to the mouse configurations (and all X for that matter) are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, instead of XF86Config, as in 8.2.

I didn't have one (I guess that YaST doesn't create it, for some reason). I copied (cp) XF86Config to xorg.conf and the settings were there on the next X start. I guess you could try sym-linking xorg.conf to XF86Config, but I didn't.

Now, I make changes manually to xorg.conf.

Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.5-17.14-default PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Thanks to both Alex and Ed Harrison for responding to my message. Unfortunately, neither suggestion worked for me. Instead, it seems to be a problem with the Raritan KVM switch I'm using (or the cables). When I plug in directly to the box, it recognizes the mouse and the wheel works fine. When I go back to the KVM switch, it reverts back to being broken. Bummer. Everything was working great on 8.2.

Steve Configure the mouse directly plugged in PC and then plug it in the KVM switch. Don't matter if it doesn't work with the KVM switch between.

BandiPat

23:44

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thursday 24 June 2004 12:30 pm, Ed Harrison wrote:

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** Reply to message from Steve Adams on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:05:00 -0400

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

In 9.1,I think you will find that changes to the mouse configurations (and all X for that matter) are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, instead of XF86Config, as in 8.2.

I didn't have one (I guess that YaST doesn't create it, for some reason). I copied (cp) XF86Config to xorg.conf and the settings were there on the next X start. I guess you could try sym-linking xorg.conf to XF86Config, but I didn't.

Now, I make changes manually to xorg.conf.

Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.5-17.14-default PolarBar Mailer 1.25a ==========

Ed, I believe if you'll check, the xorg.conf doesn't play a part in the standard 9.1 install. If you update to the Xorg files that SuSE provides on their ftp mirrors, it might though. ;o) He should still only be looking and working with the XF86Config file. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

Ed Harrison

25 Jun 25 Jun

01:58

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

** Reply to message from BandiPat on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:44:17 -0400

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I believe if you'll check, the xorg.conf doesn't play a part in the standard 9.1 install. If you update to the Xorg files that SuSE provides on their ftp mirrors, it might though. ;o)

He should still only be looking and working with the XF86Config file.

I am just speaking from my experience. xorg.conf did not exist in my /etc/X11 at first, neither did I use the xorg packages (until after I saw how using the config file was so similar to XFree86). When I first upgraded to 9.1, I had very few problems, but the ones I did have were all related to X. Monitor resolution wouldn't take effect after changes in Yast and SAX2. The keyboard choice of us, pc-104 would not be correct when I restarted X, although it was fine on the tty1-6 screens. The optical wheelmouse wouldn't "wheel", and wouldn't "mouse" very well either. I don't remember how I stumbled across this info. Changes to xorg.conf stuck and everything X returned to normal. I haven't tried any SAX2 or YaST2 changes to see if they are written to xorg.conf or XF86Config--don't want to break anything again. xorgcfg is a very crude gui configurator, but if you know your equipment it can be used. xorgconfig is a command line configurator which I used to set up the basics, but, again, it helped to know my equipment to use it. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.5-17.14-default PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Carl William Spitzer IV

2 Jul 2 Jul

04:45

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 09:30, Ed Harrison wrote:

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** Reply to message from Steve Adams on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:05:00 -0400

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

In 9.1,I think you will find that changes to the mouse configurations (and all X for that matter) are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, instead of XF86Config, as in 8.2.

I didn't have one (I guess that YaST doesn't create it, for some reason). I copied (cp) XF86Config to xorg.conf and the settings were there on the next X start. I guess you could try sym-linking xorg.conf to XF86Config, but I didn't.

Now, I make changes manually to xorg.conf.

On my box with clean install /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "7" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection this is for a two wheel mouse enabling horizontal and verticle scroll. for a one wheel mouse use Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Enjoy :) CWSIV

Bill Wisse

24 Jun 24 Jun

17:50

New subject: [SLE] Broken wheelmouse following 9.1 update

On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:05, Steve Adams wrote:

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I recently updated my SuSE Pro 8.2 to 9.1. The wheel on my Microsoft wheelmouse worked fine under 8.2, but now the pointer just jumps to the far right edge of my screen when I use the wheel. Any ideas?

I had the same problem. Went to Yast--hardware--mouse and discovered that it not pointed to the right mouse. ( changed from PS2 to Aux. Changed it back and it worked again. HTH -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."

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