Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 41382
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2006/1/15-17 [Computer/HW/IO] UID:41382 Activity:low
1/15    I'm running a Gentoo box with udev-070.  A handful of my devices
        (mouse and joystick, to name the most noticable) work fine if
        they're plugged in at boot time, but if I plug them in later they
        have some issues.  For the mouse, it doesn't detect the mouse
        wheel; for the joystick, it doesn't work at all.  I'm not exactly
        sure what to google for, as the howto I've found regarding Gentoo
        and udev just talks about setting it up, not dealing with funky
        stuff like this.  Anybody know what the issue might be or where
        I can look for help?  Thanks.
        \_ what do you mean by "mouse wheel not detected" -- in X?  Do you
           have the zaxismapping?
           \_ He probably means that X doesn't recognize mouse wheel movements
              after you unplugged and plug the mouse back in. I have basically
              the same problem with a cheapie KVM switch. It has nothing
              to do with the X server config files, AFAIK, but it's a deeper
              problem with either the motherboard, the mouse drivers in
              Linux, or the mouse itself. I'd mess around with the BIOS
              settings to see if it fixes it, but on my debian box even
              doing a cat on the psaux port does not reveal any movements
              off of the mouse wheel after you unplug/plug back in the
              mouse.
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