scroll error with mouse wheel [SOLVED]

o2bfishn · 2006-11-15 02:38:30

thought this only happened in firefox, but it happens in opera and konqueror

i did a fresh install of arch and it is updated. installed xorg and kde. i have used the firefox package from arch as well as installing from mozilla.com itself, same issue in firefox, but like i said it happens in other browsers and file managers

if i scroll down (towards me) its fine, but if i scroll up, i get the right click popup menu. in konq it is a little different as it places whatever i copied into the clipboard into the address bar as a web page

relevant parts of my xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier    "Mouse1"
    Driver    "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"    # IntelliMouse PS/2
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
    Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
#    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#    Option "Emulate3Timeout"    "50"

this didn't use to happen, but i cant remember when it started and what was updated when it did. also i do not notice this on other distros. i have also enabled emulate3buttons and added to zaxismapping to 4 5 6 7, no change. any ideas? it is a standard logitech wheel mouse.

ndlarsen · 2006-11-15 13:22:06

Which mouse are you using? If it is a mouse with more buttons than a "standard 3 button mouse" you might want to take a look at this wiki page.

ToLo · 2006-11-15 18:30:50

I had some trouble with the scroll wheel of my mouse too.

Test your mouse with 'xev' , it is reporting your button numbers.

All the information you get here from the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … roll_wheel

bones · 2006-11-15 20:02:33

I myself had a similar problem. What worked for me was changing "/dev/psaux" to "/dev/input/mice" and now everything works fine.

o2bfishn · 2006-11-16 19:07:41

none of that works. i have a regular scroll mouse from logitech, 2 buttons, one wheel, the wheel does click down so i guess that makes it a three button mouse, but this has always worked in the past on arch and now it wont. same mouse, different distro-works fine. whats up with arch?

Snarkout · 2006-11-16 19:39:26

I had the same problem, and sounds like the same mouse - I spent some time fooling with my xorg conig, and finally settled on this. I don't know that this is "the correct way," but it works as I'd expect it to.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Buttons" "3"
EndSection

ndlarsen · 2006-11-16 19:45:56

If your scroll wheel is clickable is goes as a 5 button mouse. One for each button, one for each scroll direction and one for the down click. Hence 5. Are you sure that you are using the right protocol? Have you tried with just PS/2 or ExplorerPS/"? Tried with /dev/input/mouse0? Have you tried remapping the buttons? Check the button numbers with xev as mentioned in an earlier post to figure out if the buttons are mapped as you are expecting them to be.

o2bfishn · 2006-11-17 15:36:17

well i have never had to remap my mouse keys and i understand now about the mouse wheel and that it is a 5 button mouse not three. i will run xev and try to see what is going on and report back

sorry if i sound frustrated, i really love arch and it has taught me so much about linux, im just kind of off on this one, i have never had a problem before

thanks for everyones help so far and i will report back my findings, thanks again

o2bfishn · 2006-11-19 04:16:09

ok so i modified my xorg.conf to include the following

    Identifier    "Mouse1"
    Driver    "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
    Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5"
    Option "ZAxisMapping "4 5"

i added the buttonmapping line from pclinuxos where my mouse works fine, but it was originally 1 2 3 6 7, i changed it to what is above to see if that worked, it did not. i have also tried explorerps/2, /dev/input/mouse, and 4 5 6 7 for zaxismapping and enabled and disabled emulate3buttons...all with no change

i have run xev and it seems that when i scroll up i get a buttonpress event on button 3 and button 4 with a release event for button 4

so from that it appears that when i scroll up it is also executing a right mouse click (button 3)

any ideas?

scarney · 2006-11-19 05:06:20

try setting it up like this.

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Buttons" "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

EDIT: the top line of mine reads

Identifier "USB Mouse"

if you have a USB mouse, i would change that line to what mine says.

just jot down your current setup before doing the change. this has worked for me on alot of distros, including Arch.

ToLo · 2006-11-19 08:41:41

change your Section "InputDevice" to

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
...add here now all your options from the conf-file from pclinuxos

please post the whole section from conf-file from pclinuxos here

ToLo

o2bfishn · 2006-11-19 13:09:27

[EDIT] not solved, i spoke too soon, still does it when i scroll up, thought it didnt on my yahoo page but when i got here it did it again.[/EDIT]

scarney, i put in what you had, but had to comment out the Option "Buttons" "Buttons" "5" line, it said 5 isnt a valid option or some such, but it worked! thank you

thanks everyone for putting up with me on this one, not sure why it has changed or what changed between the last time it worked and now, but thanks! problem solved.

Snarkout · 2006-11-19 16:50:50

Have you tried the config I posted?

o2bfishn · 2006-11-19 22:25:57

that didnt work either

scarney · 2006-11-19 22:40:26

np man, glad it helped. you can prob mess with the "Buttons" setting, just to see if a certain number works. or if your happy, leave it!.

o2bfishn · 2006-11-22 17:54:38

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

man am i embarrassed! may i extend my apologies for this post. i use a switch box and a usb mouse with a usb-ps/2 adapter on it, it used to work (or at least i thought it did) but i tried the mouse straight to the box and the issue went away. i think the last time i used the switch box i had a standard ps/2 mouse on it not the usb i have on it now

/me crawls under his desk to hide

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

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scroll error with mouse wheel [SOLVED]

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Re: scroll error with mouse wheel [SOLVED]

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