Hi,
Newbie on here, but google brought me here so...

Anyway, I have just added a cordless optical mouse , 3 button, scroll wheel, made by logitech.
Product link
ebuyer QF 52117

I have it running through a KVM to my RH9 box.

The problem is that the scroll wheel works to scroll down, but not up !
I have tried all sorts of hacks on XF86Config to get it working but, either it doesn't scroll at all, or the x server refuses to start. So I end up going back to the beginning each time.

I have read other posts that suggest the KVM might be the problem, but I have booted a knoppix 3.4 cd and the mouse and scroll functions work perfectly. Unfortunately, the XF86Config file in Knoppix bears only a passing resemblance to the one on RH9.

I would like to crack this, but I'm at a loss now.

Heres my current XF86Config

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "RELISYS TE98"
DisplaySize 370 280
HorizSync 30.0 - 95.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 3 (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection


I have commented out the Emulate3Buttons as I was trying to see if it made a difference. RH always puts no in there and leaves it uncommented. Still no joy though.
I have tried commenting out
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
and the corresponding section, but no change.

Any ideas ?


Cheers

Also, I have got the following message during boot:
Starting Console Mouse Services : Spurious 8259A Interrupt : IRQ 7

WTF ?

mmmmmm, this sounds weird. Have you tryed to update xfree via apt-get??? (make a copy of xfree config before doing it).
The fact that Knoppix can use your mouse correctly may be because it has a newer xfree (or xorg) version.

Hi,

I have just added a USB cordless optical mouse too, 3 button, scroll wheel, made by logitech. And, you know what ?... I'm really not happy ! (
It does not work at all.


The system recognizes an entity on the USB port, but nothing works. Though my XF86Config-4 seems to be good (the same as yours). I'm working on Debian.


Even if the scroll does not work, I'd be happy to see MOVEMENTS of the cursor...


Thanks for help !!!!


Maxoum

I have tried to update using yum, but it reports that XFree is up to date.
I have an identical keyboard/mouse set up on another machine (no kvm tho) which is running FC2 and that works perfectly.
Funny thing is, the RH9 machine with the problem, dual boots win98se and the up scroll doesn't work in that either !

I am getting a new hd soon and putting FC2 on as my main machine, as it seems pretty clean and stable. I've had RH9 for around 18 months/2 years and after trying SUSE 9.1 I think I'll stick with RH/FD.
Thanks

If you're connecting your Logitech cordless three-button (wheel) mouse through a USB port, give it a try on the PS2 port (reboot for this) and see if it gets recognized and works. That's what I had to do when I briefly tried out Mandrake 10.1 and had all kinds of mouse problems. Back to version 9.2 for the time being, where said mouse works perfectly and always has from the day I bought it. It could be something about the newer kernel not recognizing USB mice properly.