Mouse wheel scroll problem

[Dooghy]

I'm a newbie Linux user ...

I have a Compaq Presario SR1990AN. As you know when you buy a Compaq you get all the Compaq's peripherals. Therefore, I have a Compaq mouse and the scroll wheel doesn't work in my Suse 10.2. Works fine in Windows (that is only because of the drivers provided ... ). I've searched for Linux drivers .. no luck though. Any ideas how to get the mouse's scroll wheel to work?

I've tried to modify the XF86Config but with no luck so far ...

[bigtomrodney]

Can you post the mouse section of your xorg.conf? It's usually just a case of adding

    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

[Insane Insomniac]

I would also have a look at the YaST hardware section.

[Dooghy]

Here is the mouse section from XF86Config:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "PS/2"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Vendor" "PS/2-Mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

I would also have a look at the YaST hardware section.

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by that. I couldn't find any section related to Yast ...

[Dooghy]

I forgot to mention and maybe it's important for you to have a resolution to this: my system is a 64bit system (with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+).

[bigtomrodney]

I think it was meant that you should launch YaST, the SUSE setup tool. There is a section for hardware and I think a keyboard/mouse section there too. You may also try changing the ZAxismapping tfrom '4 5' to '6 7' and restarting the X server (or rebooting if you're not sure how to).

[Dooghy]

Aaaa, ok. Using Yast to setup the mouse has been the first thing I've done. It didn't work so I started to modify the XF86Config file. Nothing worked.

I changed the ZAxisMapping to "6 7" .... still not working

Something else I can try?

[bigtomrodney]

Try changing the mouse protocol. You can do this directly in the xorg.conf file if you like -

    Option         "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "explorerps/2"

in place of

Option "Name" "PS/2"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"

The Compaq mouse should just be a Microsoft Intellimouse so I hope that works out for you.

[Dooghy]

Unfortunately it's still not working.

Anyway, it seems that also USB ports are not working (I tried to install my HP printer and it doesn't work; the USB external enclosure doesn't work ...). Anything connected through USB is not working. I've googled and discovered that there are a lot of people having USB problems with HP computers (Compaq or HP - same thing).

So. now I'm focusing in solving the USB issue first. Can this be a possible cause of my PS2 mouse issue? Some conflicts ... IRQ conflicts?

[Dooghy]

Finally, my scroll wheel is working.

But I've reinstalled my system (why I did that have a look at my thread "How to upgrade Kernel?"). After installation the mouse was working properly.

My xorg.conf is looking like that:

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

I've tried these settings before reinstalling my system with no luck, so I'm a little bit confused (I think this was due my prev. installation, because I couldn't use the normal installation option so I've used the safe installation option; now, I've used the "ACPI disabled" option). But the most important thing is that everything is working fine now.