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

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

Clorden wrote:

> Sorry I did not read this thread before. This KVM/mouse issue is an old 2.6.x 
> kernel related... ahem... "feature".
> 
> All 2.6.x kernels have problems when dealing with many KVM due to the fact 
> that certain KVMs do not fully respect the PS/2 standard while 2.6.x kernels 
> are much more "standard-compliant" than 2.4.x kernels.

FWIW, it sounds as if the kernel developers have forgotten the quote
from the legendary, late Jon Postel, "Be conservative in what you do, be
liberal in what you accept from others.".

> Google is your friend should you need more info.

Information, yes.  Solutions, no.

> The problem was solved in 2.6.11/12 kernels. If you are using a pre-2.6.11 
> kernel (such as the AS4's 2.6.9-11) you can avoid the mouse going crazy 
> booting with this parameter:

I don't think anyone mentioned anything about the "mouse going crazy".
The OP (I know him personally) was having "scroll wheel dysfunction".

But, based on you previous paragraph I have to wonder "what problem" was
solved in 2.6.11/12 kernels?  Was it the problem I'm not experiencing?

> psmouse.proto=bare
> 
> Obviously your fancy mouse features (wheels and so on) are lost this way.

I'd already lost those.  :-(

> RedHat seems to have ignored this issue and its solution even in the last 
> 2.6.9-11 kernel, since they did not backport the new 2.6.11/12 kernel code to 
> it. Maybe it is too difficult or untested?
> 
> KVMs are a widespread solution in many datacenters, and it would be very 
> useful to have those mouse wheels work again... ;)

For the life of me I can't figure out why very little development time
has been spent on providing "easy" ways for utilizing the extra keys and
buttons one finds on keyboard and mice these days.

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