Re: mouse scroll not working in 2.6 kernel

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:48:50 +0100

In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es>:
> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
[stuff]

>> Looks like a pretty ancient kernel you should upgrade. Anyway

> :-). My kernel is most insulted. But I'm afraid I can't reboot for
> another six months now, so it will have to wait. Besides, this kernel
> is fine - I like it best of the many I have used. It's got nice smooth
> electrons and a really shiny stack, with chromed interrupt vector hooks.

Sure, but it remains old and buggy, a more recent version might
handle your multiple pointing devices better.

> ;)

>> under 2.6 needed the following (lilo.conf append line) to make
>> my pointing devices working probably: "psmouse.proto=imps". Never

> Aha! Michael, if that is not it, it deserves to be it! It fits the
[..]

> But I don't see any PARMs like that for usbmouse! Let's google to see
> wheer you got your info from ...

It's some time, but iirc grep helped:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

[..]

> Oh, I see - it would ONLY be a problem if I didn't have two mice, and
> used my ps2 mouse. Then signals from the ps2 mouse would go to both
> device nodes. WAIT A MOMENT. I DO have only one ps2 mouse whenever I
> don't plug the usb mouse in, and I have no such problems. I don't
> believe this entry. I don't get double dsensitivity either!

> Anyway, I need both entries for 2.4 use.

> Sigh - somebody has made a mess there.

>From my XF86Config:

        Identifier "Mouse0"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option "Buttons" "13"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
        Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"

Modules concerning mouse:

usbmouse 5696 0
usbcore 124816 7 usb_storage,usblp,usbmouse,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd

>> tested if it is still needed running 2.6.14, it's just there and
>> my Kensington USB trackball works like a charm.

> Unfortunately we won't know the result for another six months!

Seems like, strange that you are running such an old kernel,
usually look over the ChangeLog, wonder how my system which is
working rock stable could boot up at all with all those bugs that
have been gladly fixed now. AFAIK, USB wasn't that great with
early 2.6 kernels but has improved tremendously, there were many
changes and a couple of other improvements, you shouldn't miss
just because of insisting on your uptime. ;-) 

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