USB mouse wheel not working [SOLVED]

TrumpetX · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

First off, yes - I've read through the other threads... nothing seems to work either!

Here's the info that I can think to give:

I'm running on a laptop w/ a trackpad mouse (works fine) and a USB mouse (works fine, except wheel)
The wheel mouse is a Microsoft optical wheel mouse, PS2 compatible.

I've tried imwheel with the line added to .bashrc , but I don't understand what it does or how it works so I have since unmerged it. It didn't work anyway...

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Vanquirius · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

Did you try this?

TrumpetX · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

yep. still stumped :/

Garrido · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

I'm having the same problem - same mouse, only on a desktop. It has worked before in other distros, namely Conectiva 10 and FC3, with no extra configuration needed. I'm about to re-install Conectiva on another partition, if it works there I'll post the config files here, maybe it'll help...

jschellhaass · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 341

Which USB host controller driver is being loaded OHCI or UHCI?

I had a similar problem when the incorrect one was being loaded.

jeff

TrumpetX · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

hmm, as the output above shows, i think both are being loaded as modules (sorry if i use the wrong terminolgy, i'm a gentoo n00b, ex-redhat -- i.e. never compiled a kernel before gentoo-- folk.)

so, should i be loading one of those only?

jschellhaass · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 341

Yes, only one of them should be loaded. Since they are modules you can remove and add them back in.

lsmod will list the currently loaded modules

modprobe -r <module name> will remove a module.
modprobe <module name> will load a module .

jeff

TrumpetX · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

I removed OHCI_HCD and my mouse stopped working, then I removed UCHI_HCD as well

I added back each one separately and noticed that only OHCI brought life to my mouse.

I have not rebooted yet, but still no mouse wheel with only OHCI loaded.

jschellhaass · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 341

Does your system support USB 2.0? If it does you also need to load ehci if it isn't loaded. ehci should be loaded before ohci I believe.

What shows up dmesg after loading ehci? ohci? unplugging the mouse and plugging it back in?

jeff

TrumpetX · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

dmesg:

ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: wakeup
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 4
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:03.0-1

I don't think the modules are in the correct order... how does one change that ?

EDIT ADDITION:

During this last reboot (I tried making sure the mods were loaded in order by removing them and readding them in the order you suggested.)
I noticed during the coldplugging USB that the modules "mousedev" and "input" failed -- I've noticed this before, but it does not always happen. My mouse still works; however, still no mouse wheel.

PS-thanks for your help Jeff

jschellhaass · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 341

You should be able to unload ohci then load ehci (if needed) then reload ohci.

Once you have determined if you need ehci or not I would go back to my xorg.conf and change the mouse protocol to IMPS/2 and device to /dev/input/mice and see if that helps.

jeff

TrumpetX · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

glory glory!

thank you very much for your help... I'm going to attribte this to loading those two modules together instead of just one of them. Once i set IMPS/2 & /dev/input/mice & reboot, the wheel suddenly starts working!

Now, do you know anything about wireless cards? j/k new post