On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > Maybe I missed somebody saying "Get new hardware"? Instead people > gave a solution that solved the problem of the mouse not working. > It wasn't a perfect solution but should be good enough for most people > until the problem is solved. The OP appears to be in a situation where > wheel support is desperately needed in conjuction with KVM access; > unfortunately this is a corner case that still needs some work and I'd > think a solution will emerge at some point. The 100% solution for this corner case is really get new hardware... if you go with a 100% usb kvm you can eliminate the whole ps/2 mouse emulation issue entirely and your 7 button logitech mx mouse will work like it's supposed to... Part of the problem here is buggy hardware, my belkin usb-ps/2 kvm has had 6 released firmware updates since it was introduced, one of them entirely broke support for modern macintoshes, but the ps/2 mouse emulation is in itself pretty warty. A bigger over-arching issue is the kernel beeing pushed to abstract all pointing devices. so you get everything through an input layer rather than just raw... This is important because a large number of devices running linux now have more than one pointing device, my laptop for exmple has three when the external mouse is plugged in, tablet pc's have two or more, my desktop has two, etc. I don't expect that all the issues will be solved overnight but the end result will be a better input layer. > > Please at MINIMUM to direct people to the right source, links, > > documentation, > > or 'How to do it yourself' so that others with a vested interest might > > be > > able to do something about it because time is cheap for them compared to > > the alternative. > > Everyone who responded to this problem seemed to be trying to help > and gave useful information and links. > > Cheers, > Sean > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
