From a terminal, if you type:
cat /dev/input/mouse

Or whatever, when you move your mouse around, you should see odd characters spilling out into the terminal, once you find a mouse device that works for you (spills out characters) that should be the one you use If /dev/psaux worked before, by all means, continue to use that one.

Cool

hmm I'll copy the temrinal to show you my problem

all this happened in the console :/

i do not know what to do now (

and my mouse goes on: ?88? 8 ??8 ?88?88 AND SO ON



so:

i think this is what you meant with characters #


ok forget this, the mous wheel works
thx to you masterC and mcd

That's the stuff

Cool

I'm having the same problem.

I was told that since I'm using MDK 9.0 that I need to make sure that I edit the XF86Config-4 file and that the XF86Config file is no longer used after Mandrake 9.0 and above.

This is what my XF86Config-4 file looks like now and I still don't have the scroll wheel funcitonality.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

When I cat /dev/psaux I get characters that are spit out the screen when moving the mouse around.

So should I just change "Protocol" to "IMPS/2" and add the line:
Option "Buttons" "5"?

Thanks,

Woo..Hooo..


Finally..

It's working now..
Here's the change that I made to the XF86Config-4 file....

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Thanks,

good stuff, glad i could help! now if only i could figure out my own problems....

What problems?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...r&userid=46646



Cool