Different Kind Of Mouse Problem

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

It doesn't make any difference which window manager I'm in but my mouse works to quickly or something. For example, with Firefox open, I click to go back one page and it will go back two pages or clicking on a link on a web page will cause two instances of the linked page to open. In gnome chosing to open a terminal sometimes will open two terminals. Does anyone know what I can do to slow down my mouse or something so my mouse won't be overdoing it? I haven't been able to find any one else with the same sort of problem. I'm using xorg-x11 with a love-sources kernel if that helps any.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

what sort of mouse are you using?
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gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

It is a usb Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse. Here is the relevent portions
of my xorg.conf:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Here are the sections of my kernel config file that may be relevent:

# Userland interfaces
#
CONFIG_INPUT
_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set

CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y

# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=y
# CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set

#
# Miscellaneous USB options
#
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
# CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set

#
# USB Host Controller Drivers
#
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_SPLIT_ISO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT is not set
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m

# USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
#
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y

I don't know if you need anything else.

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

I've added to the xorg.config

Option "Buttons" "3"

It still has not solved my problem. Do I need to try to use imwheel with this mouse?

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

I don't think so. I use

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

I use gdm and mainly fluxbox and on occassion gnome so I'm not sure where these numbers would be on my system to check them.

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

This is getting very annoying and I haven't been able to find the answer to solve it.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

you could try playing around with the protocol options in xorg.conf. Maybe a PS/2 works better? Usually when I get oddball mouse behaviour, it comes down to the choice of protocol.

Mind, there was one occasion when it was a hardware problem in the mouse. I wound up reformatting the drive and re-installing before I realised that wasn't software.
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gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

I'll look xorg.conf over again to see if I can spot anything.

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

I guess I'll just have to keep being annoyed with this problem. All of my settings are correct., but I'm still having the problem.

MorbidDK · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 48

Same mouse, same config setup. Was working in Xfree, upgraded recently to Xorg and just out of the blue the wheel has stopped working. It might be due to a recent emerge but I can't remember what was recently emerged. Looking at emerge.log doesn't show anything that should have affected the mouse much less the X server so I'm pretty convinced its Xorg.

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

Both of you might want to try:

MorbidDK · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 48

I actually just fixed mine by adding CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV to my kernel and rebooting. My kernel now looks as such:

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

I decided to switch back to my all time favorite kde. I went into the control panel and lowered the mouse acceleration from 2.0 to 1.6. So far everything is working much better for me.