[ltp] Wheel mouse doesn't work

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 16:20, after a long battle with technology, 
James Knott wrote:
> Matt Graham wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 June 2005 14:01, after a long battle with
> > technology, James Knott wrote:
> >>I've been trying to get a wheel mouse to work in SuSE 9.3, on my
> >> R31 ThinkPad.
> > Is this a PS/2 mouse?  On Thinkpads, the PS/2 port in the back
> > shares data lines with the built-in Trackpoint. 
[snip]
> There's no PS/2 connectors on the R31.  I'm using a USB mouse. 
> Adding that "psmouse.proto=imps" parameter doesn't seem to make any
> difference. When I try the rmmod command, I get an error message,
> that the psmouse module doesn't exist.

Right.  (Details like this are important... the PS/2 problem is/was 
common, so it's the first thing I thought of.)  So the problem is 
different, possibly an X problem or a gpm problem or having the wrong 
USB mouse module loaded.  So:  Post the InputDevice section in your 
xorg.conf for the USB mouse.  Use lsmod and make sure the usbhid module 
(hid module for 2.4 kernel) is loaded (not the other USB mouse module; 
that one doesn't report everything.)  The Protocol for the USB mouse 
should be imps/2 or possibly explorerps/2--all USB mice should be 
capable of reporting events in imps/2.  The device file should probably 
be /dev/input/mouse1 instead of /dev/input/mice , but both should work 
in some fashion.  HTH,

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