Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

[Christoph Eckert]

> So, I guess this shows that the scroll wheel is sending a signal. I
> have no idea if it's getting to the right place

the problem is that not many people understand the hidden ways of 
keyboard and mouse events from the hardware through the kernel to the 
console or even X. Writing a valid and properly designed xorg.conf is 
sort of alchemy (not only concerning mouse issues).

But anyway, we have to deal with it. I do not depend on the mouse wheel 
so I decided to ignore this issue, I already spend enough time on my 
computer ;-) .
But anyway it's a pity that it did work with X and it doesn't work with 
x.org.

xev doesn't show any event, but when I do a cat /dev/input/mice and move 
the wheel, at least the cursor in the shell moves. This doesn't mean 
that there are *valid* events coming in, but at least there *are* 
events coming in. The same happens for /dev/input/mouse0, while mouse1 
and mouse2 belong to my trackstick and the touchpad. /dev/input/mice 
only seems to collect the events of all mice.

Assumed the incoming events are valid, then it's likely that we only 
need to figure out which protocol needs to be set in the xorg.conf. I 
already tried some by trial and error, but maybe a systematic search 
will help.


Best regards


    ce


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