Mouse wheel scroll down stopped working
Charlie Kravetz
cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
Wed Aug 6 12:48:13 UTC 2008
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"Salih ML" <salih.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> My mouse wheel stopped working properly when I scroll down. Scrolling
> up is pretty good but scroll down 1 out of 3 trial works. Sometimes it
> starts working ok, then goes back to the old state again..
>
> Does anybody have an idea?
>
> The only section that is relevant to mouse is the following from
> "xorg.conf" file:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> As for my laptop's system parameters:
>
> $uname -r
> Linux vaio-laptop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC
> 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
> Release: 8.04
> Codename: hardy
>
When mine did that, I had to open it up and clean the rollers. They had
a lot of dust caked on them.
Good luck,
- --
Charlie Kravetz
Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/]
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