How can one get a scroll-ball mouse working in Bookworm/Wayland on a Pi5?
I connected an old Apple mouse with a scrollball on top and found that it worked nicely to start with, but after a few updates scrolling down a page quit working. Left-right up a page still work.
I'm trying the instructions in
formatting link
but the file layout doesn't quite match and so far my efforts to edit the sytem defaults haven't worked.
If there's a simpler way please point it out!
Thanks for reading,
bob prohaska
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Chris Townley
perhaps try a simple USB mouse, with a scroll wheel?
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bp
Actually, that's what I started with. To begin with scrolling down a page worked, as did scrolling back up. After some upgrades (which weren't obviously related) scrolling down stopped working. That mouse was an old Dell that had given trouble in the past.
Thinking it was the scroll wheel encoder I tried using contact cleaner, but that made no difference. Only then did I try the Apple scrollball mouse, and it seemed to work at least initially. The left-right scroll feature was handy, since I have a small screen.
After another update or two, scrolling down stopped working entirely, at which point I discovered the terms normal versus reverse scrolling and found the web page linked above. That seems to apply to a version of Debian Bookworm that has a quite different configuration file layout, though the title of the thread refers to Raspberry Pi.
The thing which seems odd is that left-right scrolling with the apple scrollball mouse still works when it's appropriate.
At this point I _think_ the trouble is software, but I'm not sure of anything....
Thanks for writing,
bob prohaska
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