USB Mouse Wheel Problem

[gunit]

Hello,

I have installed CentOS 5.4 as a VM (using VMWare) running on a Windows Vista Home installation.

I have mouse input, but scrolling the mouse wheel in either direction only scrolls downward.

The Xorg.conf file doesn't have any particular settings for a mouse device by default. I've tried various iterations of setting the section manually, based on scraps of wisdom I found in various forums. Currently with what I have posted below, I have mouse wheeling down working correctly, but mouse wheeling up does nothing.

I'm unable to make sense of what mystical combination of options I need to get it working. The mouse is a USB optical mouse, nothing too fancy. Does anyone have any insight?

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
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[pschaff]

Under KDE my scroll wheel "just works". Nothing special in xorg.conf at all. May have something to do with VMware and/or the host OS.

[gunit]

Well, I am using Gnome instead of KDE, not sure if that matters.

The mouse wheel works fine in the Host OS.

Is there a way I can easily test the signals coming from my mouse, from within CentOS? I would think if I can tell if they're getting into my VM system or not, I can at least determine if VMware is the problem, or not having the right xorg.conf settings is the problem.

[pschaff]

A few quick googles find some Java, JavaScript. and other material - not sure what you're looking for. Maybe somebody else knows something already built-in or available in CentOS. Try googles such as
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mouse events scroll wheel
mouse events scroll wheel ~detect OR ~log
mouse events scroll wheel x11 ~detect OR ~log
mouse events scroll wheel site:centos.org
...
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