Problem with wheel mouse and TAB.

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Scotoner

Even if I add these lines to xorg.conf:
Code: 
Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option      "Buttons"       "5"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
or modify where I must make changes, mouse wheel won't work! Also I am experiencing the problem using the TAB on terminal that helps you complete a command... When I was Logged in as root I didn't experience the TAB problem though. Any ideas would be great!
 
Code: 
    [color="Red"]#[/color]Option      "Buttons"       "5"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5 [color="Red"]6 7[/color]"

Also I am experiancing the problem using the TAB on terminal that helps you complete a command... When I was Logged in as root I didn't experience the TAB problem though. Any ideas would be great!
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Compare root and user .cshrc for keyboard layout or language setting differences. This is really a different problem than the mouse and you might get better input with a separate thread.
 
I made the changes to xorg.conf file that you said but mouse wheel still doesn't respond. Also I can't see any differences between root and user .cshrc unless I am doing something wrong!
 
I have a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2000 . The log is really big and I dont know how to copy it ... Pressing the mouse wheel copies but also pastes at the same time so... I don't have a clue on how to copy this...
 
X uses left-click drag to highlight and copy, middle-click (wheel-click) to paste.

Wireless mice are often a problem.
 
You can try use xev(1) to troubleshoot your mouse problems. Launch it from a term and use the mouse wheel in the window it creates. A working setup generates events for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
 
Thank you very much aragon, it worked! I used the mouse wheel on the window, it appeared then restarted X and the wheel is corresponding!
 
And now it stopped working again... Has this anything to do with the fact that I changed my user shell from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh?
 
Scotoner said:
And now it stopped working again... Has this anything to do with the fact that I changed my user shell from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh?
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Probably not. xev(1) shows events, it should not have changed anything. After you start X, unplug the mouse receiver and reconnect it. If it works for a while after that, it may be that it's one of those wireless mice with slight protocol differences. Unplugging it would reset it. Short of switching mice or modifying the mouse driver, I don't know if there's a way to fix that.
 
Well I tried that and I just discovered something... I was using the wireless adapter that corresponds with a Microsoft keyboard and used to correspond with the mouse. I had recently replaced the mouse that was with the keyboard with a new one and I used its own adapter. So I was using two adapters for the same mouse :S . Anyway I removed the mouse's adapter and kept the keyboard's one that detects my mouse too. But wheel still doesn't work. Can't understand though why before when I ran xev and restarted X wheel was working.
 
Please show your full xorg.conf.

You're using hal, so the input devices in your xorg.conf will be ignored (I think, haven't experimented with it much). Add
Code: 
Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
to the ServerLayout section to disable hal input device detection.

Your mouse has nine buttons.
 
Microsoft likes to put useless buttons on mice. Well, maybe they're useful for games or something. Yours probably has the standard three, plus scroll up and down counts as two more, maybe the scroll wheel tilts side to side, plus one for thumb and another for little finger.

Some searching shows at least one person setting the Protocol to "ExplorerPS/2". I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't work, but then what you have doesn't work either. There are other protocols listed in mousedrv(4).
 
Actually there are 5 buttons including the scroll wheel tilts ... So what's your advice? Try different protocols?
 
Via sysinstall or manually? Still can't understand why when I used xev and then restarted X scroll was working and then when I re-restarted it wasn't...
 
As root, use a text editor to edit xorg.conf. Don 't know why xev worked. My question is "why don't wireless mice work just like wired ones?"
 
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