[opensuse] Mouse "scroll gone wild" crashes 10.2, no problem in 9.0; YAST setting ignored
I've just installed 10.2. I experienced erratic (wild, unstable) scrolling during and after installation. As soon as the mouse pointer enters a text or panel area, the area starts to scroll erratically. Scroll overload apparently crashed KDE -- lost keyboard access, and ability to logoff. Problem does not exist on my 9.0 SuSE system. I'm using a Logitech wheel mouse. 9.0 lists it as an "Intelli/wheel mouse (aux)". 10.2 recognizes it as Logitech. My graphics card is an "NVidia GeForce 4 MX440SE". My monitor is an "AOC Spectrum 7KLR". In 9.0, I run at 800x600 with refresh 128hz. I managed to get YAST/sax2 to disable the mouse wheel. That worked for a while, but today, after starting Firefox, the problem returned, afflicting ALL applications (not just Firefox). According to sax2, the wheel remained disabled. However, after starting Firefox, the wheel became operative and, throughout KDE, scrolling became unstable. Is it possible that Firefox (or something else) caused the system to disregard the sax2 setting? There are several problems here: * sax2 mouse setting is ignored by applications * erratic scrolling crashed KDE, locked out keyboard * mouse may be defective It's the first two problems that deserve wider attention. The last problem, I can fix myself. Disconnecting the mouse eliminated the wild oscillations. I will try replacing the mouse. I tried reducing screen resolution to 800x600. That had no effect. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-06-14 at 08:43 -0700, Charles Obler wrote:
I've just installed 10.2. I experienced erratic (wild, unstable) scrolling during and after installation. As soon as the mouse pointer enters a text or panel area, the area starts to scroll erratically. Scroll overload apparently crashed KDE -- lost keyboard access, and ability to logoff. Problem does not exist on my 9.0 SuSE system.
I'm using a Logitech wheel mouse. 9.0 lists it as an "Intelli/wheel mouse (aux)". 10.2 recognizes it as Logitech.
Edit the config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and set it as in 9.0. For instance: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Driver "mouse" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" # previously Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection (That's a logitech trackball on ps2 port) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGcb4mtTMYHG2NR9URAr1JAJ9EJo71j3H6peynv9c0+8E/yGuk2wCfZZfW EWlWvwm80M5Vrj4eZrsEJfM= =M3q1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 14 June 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Edit the config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and set it as in 9.0. For instance: or for 10.0
Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "PS/2 Logitech Mouse" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection openSUSE 10.0 Logitech Trackman Wheel (removed Option "Buttons" "5") The ZAxisMapping is what makes the scroll wheel work, and the scroll wheel actually activates buttons 4 and 5. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Ross wrote with an electric tatoo needlee on a toasted coconut shell: :-) Charles Obler wrote:
I've just installed 10.2. I experienced erratic (wild, unstable) scrolling during and after installation. As soon as the mouse pointer enters a text or panel area, the area starts to scroll erratically. Scroll overload apparently crashed KDE -- lost keyboard access, and ability to logoff. Problem does not exist on my 9.0 SuSE system.
I'm using a Logitech wheel mouse. 9.0 lists it as an "Intelli/wheel mouse (aux)". 10.2 recognizes it as Logitech. My graphics card is an "NVidia GeForce 4 MX440SE". My monitor is an "AOC Spectrum 7KLR". In 9.0, I run at 800x600 with refresh 128hz.
I managed to get YAST/sax2 to disable the mouse wheel. That worked for a while, but today, after starting Firefox, the problem returned, afflicting ALL applications (not just Firefox).
According to sax2, the wheel remained disabled. However, after starting Firefox, the wheel became operative and, throughout KDE, scrolling became unstable. Is it possible that Firefox (or something else) caused the system to disregard the sax2 setting?
There are several problems here: * sax2 mouse setting is ignored by applications * erratic scrolling crashed KDE, locked out keyboard * mouse may be defective
It's the first two problems that deserve wider attention.
The last problem, I can fix myself. Disconnecting the mouse eliminated the wild oscillations. I will try replacing the mouse.
I tried reducing screen resolution to 800x600. That had no effect.
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