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   Chris Townley  wrote:   
   > On 28/08/2024 21:25, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:   
   >> 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   
   >> https://gist.github.com/eli9000/ac3356bb2d40183be1a425805e3b7641   
   >> 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   
   >>   
   >   
   > perhaps try a simple USB mouse, with a scroll wheel?   
      
   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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