Today I upgraded my PC at work. The hardware is all new (the old hardware
will be converted to a testing machine), but the hard-disk is my original
one, containing Redhat 8.0 and all my files.
Obviously, the first time I booted the new machine Kudzu ran and removed
old hardware's drivers and discovered some new harder (e.g., different network
cards, video card, etc.).
Almost everying seems to be working on the new machine, except the mouse's
wheel stopped working. I know the mouse wheel is an evil Microsoft invention
which imitates Tk's middle mouse button bindings, but still, I've gotten
used to it when browsing in Mozilla, and I want it back... ;)
When I have in /etc/X11/F86Config lines like
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
The mouse works well, but the wheel is ignored. This makes sense, as the
protocol should be "IMPS/2", not "PS/2". But when I change it to IMPS/2 and
restart X (or even reboot), my mouse goes berserk, and randomly moves about,
tending to stick to the lower-left corner and moving at terrific speeds, but
only when it feels like it.
Has anybody seen this phenomenon before? Needless to say, this is the same
wheel-mouse I always had on my old machine (a Logitech M-S48a) and the same
Linux and X11 software I had before...
Can it be that my new BIOS is somehow screwing with the mouse? Or that the
new USB on the system (which I don't plug anything into) somehow got X11
confused with fake mouse events? Or something else?
I'll be grateful for any hints..
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Nadav Har'El | Monday, Mar 17 2003, 13 Adar II 5763
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