Another stupid mouse problem
 

I've searched, trust me. I spent about 3 hours sifting through the theads here. Here's the deal, I'm on Slackware 9.1 with 2.4.22 and had this thing working until I updated with swaret. Now I can't get the mouse wheel to work. The XF86Config file is the same:

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

So what could have happened to this to cause the wheel to stop working? What am I missing?

if you updated with swaret today, then you may have ended up installing the new x-server: x.org

in that case, you will need to cp XF86Config to xorgconfig (or whatever the config file is called; it will reside in /etc/X11/)

if you actually have xfree installed, either rerun xf86config; and if that fails, do a clean install of xfree

Thanks for your help!! That fixed it. Now I just have to figure out what happened to my sound. Same situation, it went away after the update.

swaret will update alsa, so sound can normally be fixed by running alsaconf

make sure you are using kernel 2.4.26, or the new alsa drivers won't even do anything for you (they will install into /lib/modules/2.4.26)

I'm not sure if it's 2.4.22 or 2.4.26. I haven't even begun to think about updating the kernel until I get a little more comfortable on Linux. Is there anything I can do if it's 2.4.22? I just left work and can't get to it until tomorrow. I get an error at KDE start-up and it says it will use a default sound server or something like that. I have tried alsaconf and it finishes without installing any legacy drivers. I'll have more info tomorrow.

well, first, it depends on what version of swaret you are running and/or whether you specifically stated not to upgrade the kernel via swaret

when you get back to the system, do uname -r, that will tell you what kernel version

if it is 2.4.26, check that you have alsa-1.04 or 1.05 installed (libs, drivers, oss, utils) (look in /var/log/packages)
if it is 2.4.22, just reinstall alsa 0.96 (libs, drivers, oss, utils) (find them on the slackware cd)

do alsaconf (preferably while not logged into a gui), then (re)start your gui

*edit: also, in case you don't know, you can save a lot of disk space by deleting all the downloaded packages in /var/swaret if you don't need them

SM - Thanks for all of your help!! I broke down and used swaret to update to 2.4.26 and everything works great.

Thanks again!