Dell Lat c610 weird mouse problem

[snowmoon]

Ok got Gentto running on a Dell C610. Anyone farmiliar with these units know they come with a glidepoint, erraserhead, and external mouse port. They all seem to obey the PS/2 standard, but that's where the problems start. My external mouse if a Intellamouse with a scroll. So...

1) With external mouse plugged in and XF set to IMPS/2 everything works fine

2) With external mouse plugged in and XF set to PS/2 no wheel

3) Without external mouse and XF set to IMPS/2 the mouse is jumpy

3) Without external mouse and XF set to PS/2 the glidepoint is fine

4) protocol "auto" doesn't work either. Although I might have screwed something up.

Any ideas on what to do now except have 2 XF configs and copy them back and forth and restart the X server whenever this happenes?

Thanks,

[eryvile]

You're not alone, I do have the same problem on my Compaq Armada M700.

But as your post has been unanswered for such a long time, I guess there isn't any solution

Greets

[Pozac]

In case you are still having this problem, here is a snippet from XF86Config on my IBM X21 laptop:

[eryvile]

Thanks a lot for your help, the bumpiness is gone but the wheel also

It seems to me that if you define PS/2 as your core pointer's protocol, every extension to it (like IMPS/2) is ignored. Well, as I'm currently mainly working on my laps with the glidepoint, I guess I can live with the missing wheel right now. And maybe there will be a solution for it some day...

[Pozac]

Try setting buttons to 5 if you've got an 3 button+wheel intellimouse, if it's an Explorer, try

[eryvile]