Going crazy - Wheel mouse problems.

vinnie · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Maryland

Okay... I've got the wheel mouse working on 3 other systems... This time it just wont cooperate.

excerpt from XF86Config:

Jeevz · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:44 pm Post subject:

You did restart X after changing XF86Config right? I only ask because a couple of my friends kept changing the config file without restarting X. Easy to forget sometimes

vinnie · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Maryland

Most certianally. like a million times. ;-)

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Jeevz · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 7:21 pm Post subject:

What kind of mouse do you have?

vinnie · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Maryland

A Logitech PS/2 Wheel Mouse.

Argh. This worked last week on the same system! Then I had to hose everything up and reinstall...
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Jeevz · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

Is it a usb mouse? If so are you using it as such or do you have an adapter?

Jeevz · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 7:31 pm Post subject:

maverick · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 37 Location: IRC

If nothing else works...
The ZaxisMapping didn't work for me so i compiled imwheel :

http://jonatkins.org/imwheel/files/imwheel-1.0.0pre1.tar.gz

my wheel works just fine now

clee · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 14 Location: AZ

Or is it just scrolling up that's broken?

(I'm using Gentoo/PPC and scrolling down works fine, but scrolling up doesn't seem to generate any X events. Quite odd.)

(update)
Well, I rebuilt X 4.2.0 from source, and it works perfectly now. Someone in #gentooppc suggested that it might be that ebuild uses make -j2, which sounds possible to me. Oh well, at least it works now.

-clee

static · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 4:41 am Post subject:

Did you follow vlad's how to? (Minus the usb stuff)

I think you should also save XF86Config as "XF86Config-4" (which is the one that my X loads)
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Anti · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 45

Thanks!

After all my problems, it seems the renaming of the config file was all that was needed.
Stupid little detail

Full functionality at last!
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static · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 3:09 pm Post subject:

all that headache for a -4

been there

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vinnie · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Maryland

its all for naught - went back to 2000 on my laptop. too many problems with samba and cd burning, and not enough time to troubleshoot. oh well...

(bowing down to the man)
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static · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:06 pm Post subject:

<puking sound>

Booo

hsssss

What about mandrake 8.2, or lycoris... Lycoris has samba and wine preconfigured. Don't ditch linux just because gentoo isn't working
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vinnie · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Maryland

oh dont worry, i'm not really 'ditching' linux - still using it at home on 2 machines, but for work, i really cant see using linux on my 'all purpose' laptop. When something dosent work with windows, it dosent take me long to get it to work, but if it dosent work with linux i'll be scouring groups for days... not my idea of usability. if it were my personal laptop, i'd keep linux on it, but i've got work to do ;-)

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