FS#3659 - Scroll wheels do not work with Xorg's "PS/2" driver

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Saturday, 24 December 2005, 16:17 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 02 January 2006, 21:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

As the bug report's title says, scroll wheels seem not to work with the generic "PS/2" driver, no matter what one's other mouse settings are. Similarly, setting "auto" as the driver does not work if you have an ordinary PS/2 scroll mouse.

Currently there is a solution, to use "ImPS/2" or "ExplorerPS/2" with all PS/2 mice. However, I would wonder if this might not be desirable in all cases.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 17 March 2006, 21:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 24 December 2005, 22:47 GMT
scrolling has never worked with the generic PS/2 driver AFAIK. As long as I've used linux, I always had to use ImPS/2 on all my inputdevices to get scrollwheels to work.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Saturday, 24 December 2005, 23:07 GMT
Hmmm.. I'm guessing that means that "auto" fails to detect that my mouse is a scroll mouse, and use ImPS/2 instead of PS/2?

(FWIW, the scroll wheel worked fine with "auto" in Xorg 6.8.2.)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 17 March 2006, 14:59 GMT
How is this bug doing with latest xf-input-mouse version?
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Friday, 17 March 2006, 20:08 GMT
As of the current version, it works with "Auto". Don't know about "PS/2", but it works by default at any rate, so this bug should probably be closed.

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