Resolution and scroll wheen problems after upgrade from sarge to etch

JoeDuncan · 11-13-2006, 12:40 PM

Ok, I upgraded from Sarge to Etch and now I have two problems:

1) My screen will no longer do 1280x1024 resolution, the max I can get is 1024x768

2) My scroll wheel no longer works.

So, for problem 1), I have an S3 Virge with 4mb memory, it worked fine at 1280x1024 in sarge using the vesa driver (I could only ever get 1024x768 with the S3 driver - even in sarge). Upgrading from sarge to etch changed my X server from XFree86 to Xorg, but I have kept an identical config file with the same settings for the device, monitor and screens.

Here are those settings:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "S3"
    Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Dell 1907FP"
        HorizSync       30-81
        VertRefresh     56-76
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "S3"
        Monitor         "Dell 1907FP"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
        EndSubSection
EndSection

My xorg log file shows this:

Code:

(II) VESA(0): Total Memory: 64 64KB banks (4096kB)
(II) VESA(0): Dell 1907FP: Using hsync range of 30.00-81.00 kHz
(II) VESA(0): Dell 1907FP: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-76.00 Hz
(II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name)
(--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
(**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "1024x768"
(**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "800x600"
(**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "640x480"

For problem 2), again, I have identical entries in my XOrg file. My mouse is a Microsoft PS/2 Optical Intellimouse. I have the correct ZAxisMappings "4 5" entry (as I did before in Sarge when the scroll wheel worked properly), but nothing happens. When I run xev, scrolling the wheel does not produce any results. Clicking any of the buttons does produce the appropriate result. Here's my xorg.conf entries for my mouse (again same as I had in XFree86 - except now there's a "CorePointer" option, but removing it does nothing):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

There's this weird output from the Xorg.0.log file:

Code:

(**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/psaux"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(==) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9

I'm not sure why it says that Emulate3Buttons is on, because I have clearly not enabled it in the config file.

Anyways, if anyone can help me out, please let me know.

Dutch Master · 11-15-2006, 08:57 PM

The upgrade from Sarge to Etch has "some issues", the XFree to Xorg transistion being one of the most prominent...

I've tried it myself, despite prior knowledge that these issues are around, but found myself in an enviroment where key-app's failed. My advise: re-install from scratch (which I did eventually...)

JoeDuncan · 11-15-2006, 10:55 PM

Well, I got the 1280x1024 resolution to work by switching from 24bit to 16bit colour, however the scroll wheel still does not work, even after trying the "evdev" workaround.

Anyone have any ideas?

PMorph · 11-17-2006, 11:24 AM

You could try:

Option "Protocol" "auto"

Instead of:

Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"

JoeDuncan · 11-23-2006, 11:13 AM

Using "auto" for protocol didn't change anything either.

PMorph · 11-23-2006, 02:59 PM

Ok.
What if you try the scroll wheel with 'xev', does it give any readings for it?

JoeDuncan · 11-23-2006, 03:01 PM

Nope, that was one of the mysteries from my first post...