From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Epiphany/1.0.7 Description of problem: The scroll wheel on my USB scroll mouse does not work for scrolling, altho clicking the wheel results in a button 3 click, as is expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.1-1.57 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install devel kernel 2. boot into X 3. use xev, cat /dev/input/mice, or just any app and try using the scroll wheel Actual Results: No scroll events are generated at all. Expected Results: Scroll events should be generated. Additional info: Previous kernels (kernel-2.6.1-1.34, iirc) worked perfectly fine with the scroll wheel. X packages have not been changed.
just a note, this still doesn't work with kernel 2.6.1-1.61.
According the kernel bugzilla, a patch is available - no mention where that patch is, tho... http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329 Definitely still broken on kernel 2.6.1-1.65 And i'll stop spamming you now unless explicitly asked for more info. ;-)
Problem/fix found. The uhci-hcd driver wasn't loaded, which is apparantly needed for full mouse operation. Whatever other driver was letting the mouse work before handled everything except the scroll wheel, it seems. I guess the fix would be to have the proper driver for the system load by default without the user needing to hack on the modprobe.conf file. From reading the list archives (where I just chanced upon this fix), it seems as if this problem is common.
fixed in current trees ?
I haven't encountered any problems on either of my test systems. Seems to be working.