Mouse wheel scroll down stopped working

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:57:35 -0700
"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,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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