ps2 2 button + scroll wheel not working

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: ps2 2 button + scroll wheel not working
started by: TWILIGHT32

Posted by TWILIGHT32 on Aug. 10 2008,15:56

I have a 2 button + scroll wheel ps2 mouse(HP). the 2 buttons are working fine. but the scroll wheel is not working. things don't scroll at all.

I have read the forums help, but still cannot get it to work.

in Xsetup , I had chosen yes for "Wheelmice use Imps/2 protocol", I have gone there and redone the setup at least 50 times, and then restarted "startx", hoping it will work at some point but it never did .

when I do dmest | grep -i mouse, I get the following:-
root@box:~# dmesg | grep -i mouse
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

the scroll wheel works in pasting though. when I copy something and then press on the scroll wheel it pastes.

Looks like only the scrolling doesn't work.

can anyone help ? why does the xsetup not work ? Is there any file that I can tweak manually to get it working ?

thanks

Posted by roberts on Aug. 10 2008,16:15

.xserverrc is the file. I have a ps2 wheel mouse and works great.
Here is my .xserverrc

exec /opt/bin/Xvesa -mouse "/dev/psaux",5 -screen 1024x768x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

Posted by TWILIGHT32 on Aug. 12 2008,02:44

thanks for the reply Roberts.
my .xserverrc is as follows:-
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -mouse /dev/psaux,5 -screen 800x600x24 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

but it doesn't work.
I have tried changing 5 to 7 to see if it would work. it doesn't .
do you have "/dev/psaux" or /dev/psaux ?

any idea what else I should be looking at ?

thanks

Posted by TWILIGHT32 on Sep. 13 2008,11:51

Hi is nobody able to resolve the problem?

I don't understand why the scroll wheel doesn't work, when it works fine with other distros.

another thing I have to add is when it is booting, it actually detects a ps2 wheel mouse. how come it is not working then ?
this is a section of the booting messages:

"mouse is generic ps/2 wheel mouse at /dev/psaux"

thanks

Posted by JohnJS on Sep. 14 2008,15:44

Hi Twilight32
On my P3 600mhz and P2 233mhz the two-button+scoll works fine. Only with SIAG does the scroll wheel not work unless you place the focus on the right scroll bar.

On my P3 info reads:
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -mouse /dev/psaux,5 -screen 1024x768x16 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null.

By the way, accidently discovered that if one depresses the scroll wheel only it will paste.
Hope this helps.

PS 4.4.5 Frugal Lilo and straightforward installation with no modifications

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 16 2008,05:14

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in Xsetup , I had chosen yes for "Wheelmice use Imps/2 protocol", I have gone there and redone the setup at least 50 times, and then restarted "startx", hoping it will work at some point but it never did .

By restarting, did you exit X first?

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I don't understand why the scroll wheel doesn't work, when it works fine with other distros.

DSL uses the tinyx server by default, whereas most distros use a fully-featured one (it's also slightly older)... which could be an explanation. You could try one on DSL if you can't this to work. Or a newer tinyx server (see mydsl).