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From: Mike Williams
Subject: X11 mouse scrolling problem
Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011 - 4:01 am

Hi,

I have just upgraded a machine from 4.7 to 4.8 and I have a problem with 
the mouse's scroll wheel in X Windows.  Scrolling down is fine but 
scrolling up scrolls down a page at a time - it wont scroll up at all. 
This was working fine since I put 4.1 on the machine a few years ago.

I have tried various apps under  various window managers and all have 
the same problem.  I have tried different mouse protocols Just In 
Case(TM) and they of course gave the other expected problems and didn't 
solve scrolling.  I removed my xorg.conf so as to use bog standard 
defaults - same problem.  I generated a new xorg.conf and compared with 
my current and there were no differences.  Well only for video card - 
updated for new options and still the same problem.

An hour on Google doesn't turn up anything obvious apart from mouse 
configurations which match/are close to my settings.  FTR I am using a 
self powered 2-port KVM but have been using this as long as the hardware 
without any problems - the windows box on the same KVM is having no 
problems with the scroll wheel.

So wumps around the noggin with a klew stik would be appreciated.

Attached are my dmesg, xorg.cong, and Xorg.0.log ...

TIA

-- 
Mike
dmesg
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OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Jan  1 13:19:02 GMT 2011
    root@x-x-x.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: VIA Esther processor 1500MHz ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1.50 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF,SSE3,EST,TM2
real mem  = 1039691776 (991MB)
avail mem = 1012723712 (965MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 06/22/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf9360, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0800 (25 entries)
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle)
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xc4f4
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc450/160 (8 entries)
pcibios0: bad IRQ table ...
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From: Mike Williams
Subject: Re: X11 mouse scrolling problem
Date: Monday, January 3, 2011 - 4:44 am

Its a hardware issue.  The KVM mouse lead has become a loose fit over 
time (it gets shared with another box occasionally) and must be having a 
problem with some of the pins.  Plugging the mouse in directly is a snug 
fit and no scrolling problems.  First hardware purchase of the new year 
will be a new KVM.

Crawling back under my rock ...

-- 
Mike


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