scroll wheel doesn't work

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 15:19:16 Chris Turner wrote:
> This is probably overkill. Also, moused has an '-l' flag for this
> 
> For reference - alot of the mouse documentation is somewhat 'cruft'
> from the MS/DOS PC-AT era and various nonstandard serial port drivers -
> for the most part things just 'work' for 'modern' (e.g. Pentium+/win95+
> era) ps2/USB mice in my experience.
> 
> However, some KVM's do 'interesting' things with port data, so you'll
> probably want to post a dmesg to see if anything obvious stands out,
> and try running from the console with -f and -d flags will probably
> be of use here as well - for example - a test session for me
> shows 'Z' axix activity in the 'dz' field here:
> 
> $ grep 'dz.*1' /tmp/mouse-log
> moused: activity : buttons 0x00000000  dx 0  dy 0  dz -1
> moused: activity : buttons 0x00000000  dx 0  dy 0  dz 1

I ran it in debug mode and saw no activity at all when I turned the wheel. 
Varying the level, I got three-byte packets at levels 0 and 2 and eight-byte 
packets padded with zeros at level 1.

> I misadvised earlier in this thread r.e. the '-z' flag and apologize -
> at the time I was not using moused & have switched back for testing here -
> 
> my setup (moused, ps2 mouse, scroll OK) is as follows:
> 
> $ dmesg |egrep '(psm|ums)'
> psm0: current command byte:0065
> psm0.atkbdc0.acpi0.nexus0.root0
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> [tentative] irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4-00, 5 buttons
> psm0: config:00000000, flags:00000008, packet size:4
> psm0: syncmask:08, syncbits:00
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> [attached!] irq 12 on atkbdc0

I got just this:
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0

The mouse is a Compaq MO42KC.

Pierre
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