lost scroll wheel after kernel compile
 

ok, here is the deal.

I just upgraded to Fedora Core 3 (it went beautifully too :D) and decided that the kernel(2.6.9-1.667) it installed was too heavy for what I do with it.
so, I downloaded the new source from kernel.org configured it for what I needed.

but now when I load x(gnome to be more specific) my scroll wheel does not work.

If i reboot to my orginal kernel(2.6.9-1.667), it works fine but with my kernel no such luck.

Have I missed a module?

Are there some divers that I should download and compile?

How do I check to see what the currently running kernels config is?

I have a wireless intelimouse explorer pro. With tilt wheel (horizontal scrolling)

Now the tilt wheel never has worked, but the vertial (standard style) scroll wheel always has.

I have searched the forums here and I have not been able to come up with much help. I found one topic that showed some config stuff for the Xconfig in gentoo, and it matches mine.


Thanx for the help in advance.

if you need more info just ask, I am a bit of a noob, so if you need me to use an obscure command to list some info, pls make sure you let me know what it is.

thnx again

To find the current kernel's config, look in /usr/src/<kernelversion> or /usr/src/<distroname> for a hidden file called .config.

Hmm
yeah
any thoughts on the mouse scroll thing?

I use Mandrake, not Fedora, but chances are the same thing sometimes happens with Fedora as with Mandrake: the /etc/F11/XF86Config file gets wrong entries for the mouse. It's worth looking to see.

The section that deals with my mouse reads:

I had to change the "Protocol" from "Explorer/PS2" to "IMPS/2" which is a generic designation for a PS2/USB mouse with a scroll wheel.

(I have a Logitech cordless optical scrolling mouse with two buttons and the wheel.)

Then I had to change the "ZAxis Mapping" to "4 5" from the erroneous "6 7" figures that the installation put in there.

The buttons are 1 (left), 2( right), 3 (press the wheel); the "4" means scroll up, and the "5" means scroll down by rolling the wheel away or towards you respectively. The "6 7" is for a mouse with five total buttons!

After I changed that and rebooted (I know, I know, you don't have to reboot, but I can never remember how to do it without rebooting), my mouse worked perfectly everywhere.

You can comment out the original lines with "#" (without the quotes) if you're afraid you'll forget how it read and when you change it it doesn't work. Or you can save the original file by copying it to <name_of_file>_orig
or something like that to jog your memory. Then you can copy it back to the original file name if you want to restore it.

Like I say, worth looking into. It may be as simple as that.