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EgidioCaprino

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Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

Hello,

I am using an Apple Magic Mouse with Arch Linux and it works pretty fine, except for the scrolling.

I have read it works out of the box with Ubuntu or Mint so there probably a way to make it works under Arch too.

Do you know how to fix it?

mschulte

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Registered: 2016-04-04

Posts: 2

Re: Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

Have you tried pairing the mouse with your computer? I needed to do that in order to get my magic mouse scrolling.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_mouse

EgidioCaprino

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Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

Re: Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

Yes, I paired it with bluetoothctl but the scrolling doesn't work. It is frustrating because it looks to work fine and out of the box with other distributions.

moof323

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Registered: 2012-06-05

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Re: Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

There is a module option in the hid-magicmouse kernel module called emulate_scroll_wheel.

Make sure yours is set by running:

systool -v -m hid-magicmouse

Look for the line that has emulate_scroll_wheel in the Parameters section of the output.  It should be set to "Y".  If it isn't, try running the following as root:

modprobe -r hid-magicmouse
modprobe hid-magicmouse emulate_scroll_wheel=Y

It has been a while since I had a Magic Mouse so I cannot verify that this information is still up to date, but I hope that it helps.

moof

EgidioCaprino

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Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 102

Re: Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

Thank you for you reply.

I have done it but it does not work

taric

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Registered: 2018-01-10

Posts: 31

Re: Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

I have the same problem with the magic mouse 2. I tried the steps above as suggested by moof323, but, it still didn't work.

EgidioCaprino, did you manage to find a fix?

Edit: I confirm that scrolling works on magic mouse 1, but not on magic mouse 2!

Last edited by taric (2018-01-10 06:05:52)

jasonwryan

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Re: Apple Magic Mouse - no scrolling

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

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