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I was using fluxbox and firefox, then I installed gnome yesterday. Now my mouse wheel "jumps up and down" when I try to scroll webpages. It even does it if I am using fluxbox. Or using the rox filemanager.
My /etc/X11/XF86Config hasn't changed since the 4-4-2004, and of course has the lines:
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
It is "active", it just jumps back the opposite direction I scroll in. I can't scroll webpages, just makes them jump up and down.
Any ideas whats going on with my mouse? It's a Kensington USB optical mouse. The only thing I can think of is that installing Gnome and all its little pieces screwed something up.
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Any ideas what happened to my mouse?
I read kernel 2.6 needed the following change, which I made, but it didn't help. It's frustrating not having my mouse wheel work anymore. :-(
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
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Any ideas what happened to my mouse?
I read kernel 2.6 needed the following change, which I made, but it didn't help. It's frustrating not having my mouse wheel work anymore. :-(
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
thx
Xentac showed me the solution, I didn't need the above Protocol line, I only needed the Device line.
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It's still broke. It works if I scroll the wheel downwards what would normally be a few screens of text, then it starts working. Maybe the problem is my KVM switch I use to share my keyboard and mouse between my two Arch machines. :-(
The mouse is actually plugged in to the bus mouse port because of the KVM switch, even though it is a USB mouse.
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That's a very probable explaination.
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- Blaise Pascal
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It's still broke. It works if I scroll the wheel downwards what would normally be a few screens of text, then it starts working. Maybe the problem is my KVM switch I use to share my keyboard and mouse between my two Arch machines. :-(
The mouse is actually plugged in to the bus mouse port because of the KVM switch, even though it is a USB mouse.
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you ccould try a software solution like synergy works pretty good.
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It's a Kensington USB optical mouse...
I have a USB optical mouse as well. Change your "Device" option and "Protocol" option. The entry you should have is:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
I think you just had some bad combinations of settings. "/dev/usbmouse" is just a symlink to "/dev/input/mice", but make sure you are using the "ImPS/2" protocol as well. My scroll works in every application. Hope that helps.
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