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Making Mouse Wheels Work w/ a KVM?

Posted by Cliff on from the pesky-hardware-filtering-of-input-signals dept.

Elvii asks: "My mouse wheel doesn't want to work through my KVM. It doesn't work in X11 under Linux (Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.20), but it works in Windows on same machine, through same KVM, so that tells me it's a protocol or driver issue , which is beyond me. I have no other OS's to test on, although I read online that FreeBSD can handle the mouse wheel in this type of setup. When I set the mouse type to IMPS/2, it just twitches in corner and randomly clicks. Anyone know if it's a kernel issue or an X11 issue? I've googled and found nothing of real use there - just that some KVMs work and some don't. Plain PS/2 works but I want my wheel too." The kicker is that when the mouse is plugged directly to the machine, the mouse wheel works just fine! Has anyone else experienced the problem? What did you do to fix it?

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  1. try playing with the no. of buttons settings by Ludoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    try playing around with the settings for the no. of buttons, I had a similar problem with my MS optical trackball and solved it in 5 minutes trying different combinations for ZAxisMapping in XF86Config.
    If I'm off topic, hmmmm......I admit I did not read the post very carefully, since it looks more like a Usenet-type of question than a Slashdot post.