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Re: Logitech wireless mouse wheel

#256 Post by pudgypup »

tazoc wrote:pudgypup,
Does the wheel work in any Puppy 4.xx? If not, post on the puppy forum under Hardware or Users (for the regulars). Someone with more expertise than I should reply.

See if your /etc/mousedevice reads 'input/mice' and /etc/mousebuttons reads '5'.
-TazOC
I get the same result in lhp312f and lhp442d. I used Geany to find that /etc/mousebuttons does read '5', but /etc/mousedevice reads only 'psaux'. I input 'input/mice' (w/o quotes) and saved it, then rebooted, but no change.
As you suggest, I'll try in Hardware or Users, thanks for your help.
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#257 Post by pudgypup »

oops. lhp 412f. :oops:
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#258 Post by tazoc »

Hi pudgypup,
I'd still like to know if it works in official Puppy 4.1.2 or later.
Thanks,
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#259 Post by pudgypup »

tazoc wrote:Hi pudgypup,
I'd still like to know if it works in official Puppy 4.1.2 or later.
Thanks,
-TazOC
I've tried Puppy 4.1.2 and 4.4.2d from Lighthouse Pup on 3 boxes: a Dell Dimension 2100, an HP Pavilion, and my home HP (less than 2 years old). In every case, the mouse scroll wheel does nothing. I have also a DVD disk of LHP 4.4.2C, with KDE, and the scroll wheel works, I just have to write it to a CD for use on the Dell. I haven't tried any of the other 4.1.2 distros, but when Subito Piano gets the Concordia beta released, I'll give it a whirl.
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#260 Post by tazoc »

pudgypup wrote:I've tried Puppy 4.1.2 and 4.4.2d from Lighthouse Pup on 3 boxes: a Dell Dimension 2100, an HP Pavilion, and my home HP (less than 2 years old). In every case, the mouse scroll wheel does nothing. I have also a DVD disk of LHP 4.4.2C, with KDE, and the scroll wheel works, I just have to write it to a CD for use on the Dell.
Wow you've been busy testing all those! Must be frustrating with no mouse wheel--I use mine all the time. I have no idea why it would work on 442c but not 442d. I wonder if the Section "Input Device" in xorg.conf is related? Here's mine:

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Section "InputDevice"
	#Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	#Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection
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#262 Post by DC »

Hi tazoc,
I was playing last night with 442c and kde sfs
When I closed the lid of my laptop the screen saver activated.
I've tried all the passwords I can think of ( blank, password, puppy, linux etc) but with no success.

So could you pass the password please.

cold rebooting did allow me back in.

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#263 Post by aragon »

DC did you also try "woofwoof"? also you could try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and restarting x, this does work in standard-puppy...

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#264 Post by pudgypup »

tazOC
Here's my info from "InputDevice":

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto" #mouse0protocol
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
#Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
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#265 Post by pudgypup »

I see I have an extra "Option" line somehow. Wonder why?
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#266 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

A very old Logitech wireless mouse with fresh batteries is auto-sensed and works OK here on LHP4.42d--my xorg.conf section differs from pudgypup's only so:

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	#Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
	#Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection
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442d

#267 Post by Barburo »

Hi TazOC
I just acquired an older Sony Vaio laptop (1.73 Gh) and I've set up 412 final successfully.
I have also got 442d working but I have these queries re 442:
No wbar in LXDE - can it be started manually?
I switched to KDE (not enough graphics power in this laptop for C-F) and I messed up the task bar quite comprehensively trying to add back widgets I accidentally deleted. Is there a way to reset the KDE taskbar? I can't seem to do it.
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#268 Post by tazoc »

Hi Barburo,
No idea why, but wbar only works for me in LXDE if Compiz-Fusion is running. I tried to get it running outside of C-F and no luck. Wbar does work in JWM and IceWM.

To reset KDE's panel and desktop, open Lighthouse LookNFeel (it's in the Settings Menu in KDE), choose option 7 'Reset K Menu etc.' and when it finishes restart X as prompted.
-TazOC
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#269 Post by Barburo »

OK Thanks Taz, - that did it. I'll keep testing 442d with KDE.
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Update1 for Lighthouse Pup 4.4.2 D

#270 Post by tazoc »

Update1 for Lighthouse Pup 4.4.2 D only:

* Corrects crond scheduler not starting. Crond enables automatic blocklist updates for MoBlock. By default the updates run daily at 12 noon, if logged in at that time. Manual updates can always be started from the moblock monitor icon in the system tray. For more on MoBlock, click the 'm' in the systray, then Help/About.

* This update also repairs a couple of symlinks (realplay, audio play) and an invalid .desktop file that generated an error in OpenBox.
-TazOC
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#271 Post by BHINTZ »

I have tried to install RDP from puppypackagemanager and downloaded 8 to 10 files. It appears in the menu but nothing happens when initiated. I have tried the terminal, but do not know enough to understand what all the messages mean. Older versions used to include this program as a standard part of the operating system, but none of the newer puppies seem to have it or be able to install it. This is the only means of accessing my email and files at work.

Is there some information somewhere on how to get this program working.

thanks for any clues.

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#272 Post by tazoc »

BHINTZ,
I don't have rdesktop working in Lighthouse Pup, but maybe something in this thread will help:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31702

[Edit: and http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=323941 ]

It was suggested to run it from a command line. You might try it with official Puppy 4.xx first to keep things simple.
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#273 Post by BHINTZ »

Wonderful suggestion. Ttuuxxx's terminal server works quite well in LHP442d. I only checked email, but the screen looked just right.

thanks for the such a quick and helpful reply.

I will be trying this in other versions as well.

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#274 Post by tazoc »

BHINTZ,
Thanks for reporting what works, that may help others and maybe I could include this in a future release. Good job!
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booting latest iso results in blankscreen

#275 Post by OTRhound »

hello tazoc,

(and hello community-- I'm strapped for time right now but will be posting to Introduce Yourself thread sometime soon)
I've been trying your derivative over time, and now it's my main choice due to a decent package of stuff but especially the SMP support and apparently the recentness of the kernel which for me means better battery life. (The clockrate-tweaker util included in Barry's latest dev vers proves dangerous for me.. can result in inexplicable sudden poweroffs under some sceneria) (BTW, I was pretty delighted to see the Digital Audio Workstation compile by agitprop666... it was done using the RealTime compile options for music/audio purposes.. any chance of yours using this next release? Just a thought.)

What I want to post about quickly here, as opposed to some kind of full review which I've not time for now, is that you need to debug the video config setup process. Im using the 442beta1 now on my HPcompaq nx9300 .. I appreciated your effort to build-in the nvidia config stuff as opposed to having to later apply .pet or .sfs packages.. my recollection is that it wasnt _thoroughly_ smooth sailing but with a minimal amount of futzing around I got the 173 drivers working great on it.
But I wanted to start fresh with the latest (having got myself confused somewhat with the xdelta stuff after awhile) and grabbed the latest .iso .. I'm going to have to get my video-recording equipment working to get screenshots of some error msgs that blurt out... but in a nutshell, just selecting the nvidia, then 173, eventually brings me to a blank screen (looks like it wants to be X running, but no prompt or graphic characters of any kind).. ctrl-alt-del gets me a reboot but couldnt get ctl-alt-bkspc (tried ctl-shift-bkspc too, forget which it is) .. no joy there...

anyways, I'll hopefully soon get the time to give you a better bug report than this, but just wanted to make you aware of it..

the other huge issue for me and LHP is the inability to paste to terminal windows??!!? Something I absolutely was addicted to on the standard releases.. albeit with the pain-in-the-butt pseudo-middlebutton method of having to click right and left buttons at once, it did work. I've tried the autocutsel .pet and n either glipper nor parcellite are of any help.. have been having to fire up leafpad and write a script with whatevers in the clip buffer, then save and run the script.. (just noticed your addressing this in Release Notes.. but I run JWM not Icewm.. should I switch?)

once again, THANKS for all your efforts!
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