Problem with basic wheel mouse

LucaSpiller · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject: Problem with basic wheel mouse

Firstly: I am using a copy of Gentoo 2004.2 from a cover CD, it is slightly out of date and I have not yet had a chance to update anything because I have 56k.

I have setup Gentoo from a stage 1 install and it seems to be good. Boot up times are extraordinarily fast (30secs from Grub to Kde login screen

, 12 secs to shutdown

) and it just seems faster and more responsive overal, than other Linux distros.

So far the only problem I am having is my mouse in X.org: for some reason sometimes whenever I am moving it, it just does random stuff - just moving in the Y direction and buttons being pressed when they are not. I do not have this problem in other distros so why with this? I tried copying the mouse part from my Mandrake X11-R4 config file to my X.org config file but it still locks up every so often.

My mouse is a Packard Bell optical wheel mouse: 3 buttons, 1 scrollwheell, PS/2 interface.

Thanks for any help.

DrKayBee · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

When you configured X, did you configure the mouse as 'auto' or 'ps/2'?
Have you changed the configuration to "IMPS/2" for wheel mouse as per the install instructions?
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LucaSpiller · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject:

Where does the 'auto' / 'ps/2' bit need to be set? I am not really used to editing the Xorg config file because I have only just got into Gentoo.

Here is the section for the mouse: