On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:19:43PM +0200, Shai Bentin wrote:
> I have a logitech MouseMan/ FirstMouse basic wheel mouse. No matter what
> configuration I use in XF86Config-4 mouse setting I can't get it to
> work. I have read most of the configuration suggestions I could find in
> Xfree site and some other sites on the internet, still it doesn't work.
> I know the wheel works, because it works in windows! I checked.
>
> I use mandrake 8.1, with X Ver 4.1.0-17mdk.
>
> any suggestions.....
Run this command:
od -tx1 -w1 -v /dev/psaux
(or where your mouse device is).
Better do that in the console without X or gpm running, but for some
mice you won't have any problem even inside an xterm.
Move your mouse and press its buttons. You should see some lines
with numbers. Each operation (mouse press, mouse release, short
movement) should output the same number of lines (usually 5 or 3).
You can press 'Enter' to make it easier to space the output.
Now, wheel forward and backward. If you see any output, it means
the mouse does send something, but X doesn't understand. Keep trying
(with whatever other suggestions you got, by trying gpm, etc.)
or contact an X developer with the numbers you get when you roll
(I think it should be trivial to add support with this data).
If it doesn't output anything, it means that the mouse needs to
be initialized by some command before it moves from original
PS/2 to IMPS/2, and this will probably be very difficult to solve.
One possible way might be if you received some DOS software for it,
to try it under dosemu with some sniffer on the PS/2 io port and see
what the software sends.
(When you are done, kill od with Ctrl-C).
Two more things:
1. I have never seen a mouse I couldn't use under Linux, with
the then normally available software (X and gpm). But I always
do the above as a first step in diagnosing mouse problems
(sometimes simply 'cat /dev/psaux', which has a big chance
to trash your console. Simply type 'echo <Ctrl><V><Ctrl><O><Enter>').
So I never really debugged the output and sent any numbers
to anyone.
2. I have a Genius NetScroll+ USB, that worked with
"Protocol" "NetMousePS/2" in Xfree 4.0.3, and stopped working well
in 4.1.0, in which it works perfectly with
"Protocol" "IMPS/2". This only means that these things do change
with time, with all the new mice around, and are not as stable
as one (I) could expect (like e.g. keyboards).
Good luck,
Didi
>
> Shai
>
>
>
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