[ale] SuSE 8.1 Mouse/KVM problems

jj jjlapierre at knology.net
Sat Feb 22 12:32:51 EST 2003


Try commenting out both "EmulateWheel" lines. 
jj
On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:09 am, 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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