xserver 1.6.3.901: lost mouse scroll wheel

Timothy S. Nelson wayland at wayland.id.au
Wed Sep 2 16:26:37 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Frederik Himpe wrote:

> On one of my machines where I upgraded to Mandriva's new xserver 1.6.3.901
> I lost the mouse scroll wheel. The mouse is a Logitech MX510 USB mouse.
> Clicking the scroll wheel to paste stuff, still works, but scrolling does
> not work at all. The little "up" and "down" buttons above and under the
> wheel still scroll fine though.

 	Try running xev and seeing what you get.  That will tell you whether X 
is recognising it at a basic level.  You'll probably get button events for 
button 4 and button 5 -- that's what the scroll wheel pretends to be.


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