suse 9.3 forgets my wheel mouse

bnj · 03-23-2006, 06:37 AM

Hello,
I have a SuSE 9.3 PC on which I tried to replace a 3-button PS2 mouse by a PS2 wheel mouse.
I changed the mouse when the computer was off, then I booted. After logging in, I noticed my mouse worked fine without configuring anything. So when the dialog box opened and said "New Hardware Found: mouse. Would you like to configure it with yast?", I said no.

Then I noticed the 3 buttons of my new mouse work fine, but the wheel is actually not supported. So I tried to configure it with yast, but it did not work. I tried rebooting and reconfiguring with yast several times.

The current state is the following: when I log in, the mouse is not recognized. I need to open "Yast -> Hardware -> Mouse Model", and then suddenly my mouse works perfectly (including wheel). I do not even need to do the configuration. Starting the "Mouse Model" configuration panel is enough.
The problem is, I have to redo this everytime I log in. Does anybody know how to make my mouse work correctly?

Thank you in advance.

bnj

uberNUT69 · 03-23-2006, 06:52 AM

How about:
- turn off
- connect old mouse
- configure in yast = yes
- shut down
- connect new mouse
- configure in yest = yes

dasy2k1 · 03-23-2006, 05:09 PM

eitehr that or manually edit your Xorg.conf file (cant remember teh location)
and change mouse type from ps/2 to imps/2
(this feild is about 2/3 of teh way down the file)

dasy2k1 · 03-23-2006, 05:10 PM

(or update to SuSE 10.0 which recognises Wheel mice automaticly!

bnj · 03-24-2006, 02:43 AM

I found the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
I first launched

Code:

 sax2 - a

and now my mouse works again, except the wheel, which is only recognized as a simple middle-button, not as a wheel.
I tried to manually edit xorg.conf. I replaced "protocol" "explorerps" by "protocol" "imps", but still the wheel is not supported.

bnj · 03-24-2006, 03:32 AM

OK, I finally found the solution. I looked at the xorg.conf file of another computer, which also has a wheel mouse, and I simply copied the parameters to the computer I was trying to configure.

Here are the correct parameter for a PS2 3-buttons wheel mouse from Dell:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

After modifying the file, I rebooted (as I did so many times since I first tried to change this mouse).

Some more notes:
1. there is another xorg.conf file at /var/lib/sax/xorg.conf. I did not touch this one.
2. It seems that the boot-time became longer now. Don't know why.
3. I like manual editing of files much better than automatic stuff (like yast). Of course, yast is more intuitive, but it only work sometimes. And sometimes it does not word. I think it would be nice if yast would indicate more clearly exactly what it does, so that one can also do it manually.

Regards,

Benjamin