Hmmm. I'm surprised you weren't able to get this
working.
Here's
a few more questions for you:
1)
What versions of the kernel and X are you running on each of the
distros? (And I think you said that you're running X.org on both
distros, correct?)
2)
What brand and make of mouse are you using? (And I think you said that
it's not a USB mouse, correct?)
3)
What brand and type of PC (and CPU) are you using?
4)
Take a look at the output from dmesg (or your /var/log/everything.log).
Are you seeing any error messages re: a serio device? Particularly
something along the lines of "bytes dropped" or something. If so, please
post it here.
Also,
I don't know if this helps at all, but here's the relevant xorg.conf section
from one of my boxes:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
I'm
not sure what the ZAxisMapping option is for (IIRC, I think it had something to
do with the scroll wheel - you can either google for more info or try asking
here) but you can try adding that and see if it makes a
difference.
HTH. This actually shouldn't be impossible to fix, so hang in
there. I'll try to help you through this.
DR
-----Original Message-----Thanks to all who responded to my inquiry.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Doug Jolley
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [arch] X doesn't like my PS/2 optical mouse
Neither switching the device to '/dev/psaux' from '/dev/input/mice' nor changing the protocol to 'Auto' from 'IMPS/2" would fix the problem. I think I need to come up with an explanation that would be consistent with the fact that these settings work for an optical mouse on FC4 while they do not on Arch Linux. Although I am not using a KVM switch (I have only one of each device) a kernel bug that was present here but not in the FC kernel would certainly seem to meet the criteria.
Anyway, until I can get this figured out (and I do hope that will happen), I can certainly live with just using a roller-ball mouse.
Thanks for the input. If anyone thinks of anything else, I'd love to hear it. Thanks again.
... doug
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