Mousewheel not working on HP-UX 11.0 X server

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Hi folks,

I am using an X server on HP-UX 11.0, B2000 workstation and a "Compaq" (Logitech) USB optical wheelmouse.

My window manager is Gnome 1.4 and it is running on a remote A-Class system under HP-UX 11.11, managing all the windows on my local HP-UX 11.0 system with the HP-UX 11.0 X server.

Unfortunately the mouse wheel doesn't work. Everything else works fine.

Does anyone have any idea how I can make the mouse wheel work?

Will be rewarded with points of course :-)

Thanks, Christian

[KapilRaj]

Guys,

Is there a patch for this ??? :) ............. kiddin ..

Christian, This is not a H/W Support forum .. I can only advice you to clean the mouse wheels which I normally do ..

Best way is to call your H/W Support person and get it replaced !

Regds,

Kaps

[Steven E. Protter]

I have yet to see a wheeled mouse work with HP-UX, many brands of mouse, many X emulators.

Same deal with Linux.

If its been done, I've not figured out how yet.

Its a feature.

SEP

[Christian Deutsch_1]

1. I did mention that this is an optical mouse. The "wheel" can be used to scroll inside windows (theoretically).
2. Interestingly enough, I have a colleague who sits nearby and he didn't need to set anything, his wheel mouse just worked! He's using CDE. I don't know if a wheel mouse will work better for CDE but I don't see why that should make a difference.

[Elmar P. Kolkman · Accepted solution]

The support of a wheel mouse (or any hardware feature) depends on the software used. For instance, in your case, there are multiple layers that can cause the problem:

1) the mouse driver in your B2000 doesn't support the wheel. Check out SAM if it has something controlling the options of the mouse driver.

2) the X-server on your B-class doesn't support a wheel mouse, thus not creating X-Events when the wheel is turned. You could check it by using the same window manager your colleague uses.

3) The X-program you tried to use the wheel in doesn't support the wheel.

I would go for SAM first, then try to use CDE like your colleague to check if your X-server has the wheel-mouse-support.

Hope this helps you on your way.

[Alex Glennie]

check the Xserver has the USB driver :

search your /var/X11/Xserver/logs/X0.log file for /usr/lib/X11/extensions/hid.1, if it's not there what's your Xserver patch level like, also compare your frinds working systems /usr/dt/config/C/sys.resources file with your own.

ps I have this working on my 11.00 system with gnome and a usb mouse

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Thanks Elmar and Alex,

I'll have a look into this and assign points
when I'm done. Sorry about the delay and thanks a lot for the helpful advice!

Christian

[Charles Slivkoff]

xmodmap -pp

There are 5 pointer buttons defined.

Physical Button
Button Code
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5


For the wheel to work, there must be 5 buttons detected:

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Chuck,

Now that's really cool!

Thanks a lot.

Learn something new every day...

Alex and Elmar, I didn't forget about your points. I haven't installed an Xserver patch yet but I'm planning for PHSS_29168 or newer and then I'll try xmodmap -pp and then hopefully the mousewheel will be working. My Unix boxes have been running for almost four months now without reboot so I'll wait until I need to reboot or restart the X server for whatever reason.

Christian

[Edgar Arroyo]

I have the same prob. but my mouse is locking up the system where I can't do anything on X, forced to press the power button...

I have a C3000 and an optical HP wheel mouse, part # 5185-2415, Rev B, Mode U813I-0

How do I change the driver for the mouse?

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Edgar,

All I can guess is, as already mentioned,
xmodmap -pp.

Also, as mentioned above, X server revision. I just installed the latest available patch for HP-UX 11.0: PHSS_30500 B.11.00.22 Xserver cumulative patch.

You have to check the prerequisites though. Before installing PHSS_30500 I installed the prerequisite PHKL_30376.

As far as I am aware, the "driver" for the mouse is in the X server, so an X-server patch might help you.

Hope this helps, Christian

[Edgar Arroyo]

Hi, I installed the 30500 and still shows 3 pointers. I am starting to asume the mouse is not compat. with it, even though it's an HP mouse... It's the HP USB Optical Wheelmouse, gray/gray color with clear gray bottom.

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Edgar,

That's interesting, you mean xmodmap -pp shows you just 3 buttons?

If it's important enough for you, you could get in touch with HP Support and they could log a call for you. Maybe they need to make a new patch that works on your machine.

Sorry I can't give you more ideas than this.

Kind regards, Christian

[Edgar Arroyo]

Well, my problems are gone. Trashed the HP mouse and got 2 Logitech Optical Wheel mice and they both work fine on the B2000 and the C3000, with 5 pointers. If anybody wants to report to HP that *their* mouse doesn't work on visualize machines, be my guest.

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Edgar,

That's very interesting!

In fact I do have a "COMPAQ" mouse (bought last year, after the HP-Compaq merger), which has a Logitech label on it's underside (!) and this one works fine on my HP Visualize B2000 workstation.

Maybe your "HP" mouse was not a Logitech?

Anyway I'm very happy your problem is solved now!

Kind regards, Christian

[Edgar Arroyo]

Ok, I had HP-UX 11 and 30500 fixed the scroll mouse problem.

I upgraded to 11i and now the darn scroll doesn't work anymore.

Are they going to have a fix for this for 11i???

[Edgar Arroyo]

Just FYI....

PHSS_30500 is for HP-UX 11 and
PHSS_30504 is for HP-UX 11i

It fixed the scroll mouse problems.

What I've noticed is that it cuts the XF86Config file in half, it has missing info, is this how they fixed it?

[Christian Deutsch_1]

Dear Edgar,

Sorry I have to pass on the XF86Config file. I
don't know this one very well.

Anyway happy you're mousing around
successfully now.

Have a nice day, Christian