Making Mouse Wheels Work w/ a KVM?

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?

Hmm

[snubber1]

I have the exact same KVM (only you paid too much for it. buy.com is selling it for $20 less).

I am also running a Debian stable box and an XP box and my mouse wheel works fine on both. However I've had debian boxes that were a nightmare to get the wheel working (running unstable however).

I suppose my point is that it *can* work given your setup.

Ask Slashdot-Debian-User-List

[Anonymous Coward]

And this is on Ask Slashdot? Why isn't it just handled through the Debian user list? Oh -- that's right.

Perhaps it's because (in my experience) people on the Debian user list are often too busy proving their IQ instead of finding practical ways for Debian to work with the rest of the world.

Try a distro that doesn't take forever to add new drivers or new software, like Redhat, Mandrake, or Suse.

(And no, I'm not trying to troll -- Debian takes forever to add anything and often support on the help list is at a level only programmers and developers can understand.)

Put this in XF86Config

[jonadab]

Section "Pointer"
Protocol "imps/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection