wireless mouse problems

Drewcore drewsph at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 00:06:02 UTC 2005


i'm still using warty. i was thinking of upgrading, but i still feel a
little cautious. anyway, i guess i might as well change my apt sources
to reflect "hoary" instead of "warty" and to the apt-get update...

On Apr 4, 2005 6:49 PM, Julio Biason <julio.biason at terra.com.br> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:50 -0500, Drewcore wrote:
> > hi. i was using a microsoft usb mouse up until a few days ago, when
> > one of my friends gave me a kensington wireless usb mouse. it was
> > working fine until yesterday, when i noticed the scroll wheel, instead
> > of going down when i roll down, it jerks down a line then up a line.
> > same occurs when i try to scroll up... i really like this wireless
> > deal, but i like using my scroll wheel more. does anyone know what
> > might cause this behavior?
> 
> Hmm... It looks like a driver problem. I have an optical mouse too
> (neither Microsoft, nor kensington -- it is a "clone") and it is working
> perfectly since Warty.
> 
> Here is the relevant xorg.conf options, in case you want to compare:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> The lines you must look are the ZAxixMapping and the Protocol, I think.
> 
> I've just noted that I have a "Synpatics" configuration also, but I
> don't have any device like that. Maybe some update added this to your
> configuration too and it is making your mouse go nuts (wild guess here).
> 
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> 
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