Re: Scroll Wheel not working in v4... [Solved...sort of]

[Tom Sightler <ttsig tuxyturvy com>]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > I keep my fingers crossed...  But I get the feeling it will require an
> > opening of the wallet.  :-)
> 
> And the answer was...a new KVM switch.

Well, I have no doubt that is "a" answer, but I'm not sure it's "the"
answer.  It still looks like a kernel bug to me, or a least a missing
feature.

It's quite obvious that the kernel is misidentifying the capabilities of
the mouse, possibly because the KVM doesn't properly report them.  That
means it's true that it's a KVM bug, but I still think the kernel should
have a way to override the probed type and force it to use the protocol
specified on the command line.

Oh well, at least your immediate problem is solved.  I may see if I can
reproduce this problem with one of the old Belkin KVM's we have lying
around the office.  If so, it's probably easy to write up a patch to
allow a "proto=force" option to the mouse driver.

Later,
Tom