[ale] SuSE 8.1 Mouse/KVM problems

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sat Feb 22 19:16:41 EST 2003


Remove the EmulateWheelButton Option.

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> My mouse wheel only scrolls down. Has anyone else had that problem.
> Here is the section from my XF86Config:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver       "mouse"
>   Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
>   Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>   Option       "EmulateWheel" "on"
>   Option       "EmulateWheelButton" "4"
>   Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>   Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
>   Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
>   Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> On Friday 21 February 2003 6:26 pm, Tom Wiencko wrote:
> 
>>Workaround works like a champ.  Thanks.
>>
>>I think, next free couple of days, I figure out what is getting reset
>>when you do this, and see if there is a way to detect the KVM switch
>>and reset the mouse automatically.  It is very strange that this only
>>happens with SuSE.
>>
>>Thanks again.
>>
>>Mike Lockhart wrote:
>>
>>>Easy solution:  when you switch back to SuSE, do a ctrl-alt-f2, then
>>>ctrl-f7 to go back to your X session.  For some reason some distros do
>>>this.  I'm not sure if its a GPM thing or what, so try with GPM off if
>>>you have it running.
>>>
>>>- mike
> 
> 

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