My Logitech TrackMan Wheel mouse worked fine on my Dell Inspiron 8000 running SuSE 9.3 except for the wheel. Not having use of the wheel threw me into such a seething rage that I was ready to stab pen through the middle of the Inspiron’s soft, inviting LCD screen. Fortunately, I found a solution to the problem before I destroyed the laptop. A forum post by “darrens” in this thread explains exactly how to fix the problem.
Annoyingly, the “SUSE Hardware Tool” in the system tray was next to worthless. The tool listed the mouse, but clicking the “Configure” button resulted in the harddrive going crazy, followed by absolutely nothing happening. I also tried using the graphical YaST, but nothing I did seemed to have any effect. The solution appears to be to use sax2 like so:
- Open a shell, change to root, and run
sax2 - Under “Input-Devices” select “Mouse”
- Click “Change configuration”
- You will see the touchpad listed twice, once on
/dev/mouseand once on/dev/input/mice. Select the one on/dev/input/miceand click “Remove selected mouse” - Once the mouse is remove, click “Add new mouse…”
- Select “USB-Mouse”, then select “IMPS/2 on USB”. Hit “OK”, then “Finish” to finalize your changes
- Restart the X server with ctrl-alt-backspace (logging out will serve the same purpose I think)
- Feel the love by working that wheel up and down