2.5.65-mm4 and mouse wheel

[georgz]

Hi,

successfully compiled 2.5.65-mm4 on my notebook and everything works fine so far..

The only caveat is that my mouse wheel doesn't work anymore... With 2.5.65 I had to change /dev/mouse ot /dev/misc/psaux because XFree didn't start up as there was no /dev/mouse created.

But this was the only change there, so is there a limitation in 2.5.65 that you aware of in regards to mouse wheel handling? Or do I have to use a different device?

[silverter]

Hello,

I'm using a USB wheelmouse and I didn't need to change much when I went from 2.4.20 to 2.6.65. I just had to load the the "usbmouse"-module in 2.5.65 instead of the "mousedev"-module in 2.4.20, and everything worked as before, even the wheel of my mouse.
You said you had a PS2 mouse., right? Are you loading the mouse driver as a module or is it compiled in the kernel? What does your XF86Config file (the relevant part of the mouse configuration) look like? Maybe if you provide more info I could help.

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[georgz]

Hi silverter,

it's a PS2 mouse. It's not loaded as a module:

d-emuc07-132-132 drivers # lsmod
Module Size Used by
xircom_tulip_cb 16272 0
crc32 3840 1 xircom_tulip_cb

From XF86Config:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

This is unchanged except /dev/psaux. But it did work in 2.4.x kernels...

[silverter]

Well, sorry I can't help you any further... Your XF86config looks all right to me. Can you try another mouse protocol, like this one:

[georgz]

Aaarggghhhh, I did use IMPS/2 before but when I upgraded I went with the default of "auto" because it worked...

Changed that to IMPS/2 and now it works... Have totally overseen that.

Thanks silverter, you're my hero!