[ale] SuSE 8.1 Mouse/KVM problems DING! DING!

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That worked. Those lines were added by the installation wizard. Now my mouse 
wheel goes up and down. Thank you for the tip. I had thought of it but was 
too afraid to try it having wrecked my X twice before on this setup.

Drew

On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:32 am, jj wrote:
> 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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Drew Brown
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