I recently discovered the convenience of a mouse with a scroll wheel.
I have one working on a Mac and one on a PC. These are USB laser
mice. When I plug one into my Sunblade 2000, the mouse works fine
except for the scroll wheel. Is there a way to make the scroll wheel
work? Thanks.

"Russ" <uymqlp502@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:1174420018.296353.134660@l75g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...
> I recently discovered the convenience of a mouse with a scroll wheel.
> I have one working on a Mac and one on a PC. These are USB laser
> mice. When I plug one into my Sunblade 2000, the mouse works fine
> except for the scroll wheel. Is there a way to make the scroll wheel
> work? Thanks.

I'm using a Type-7 mouse and the scroll wheel works great on a Sun Blade
1000.
Not sure if a generic scroll wheel mouse would work as well.

I think someone else needed to have the latest firmware, this may have been
a Sun Blade 100, for the Type 7 keyboard/mouse to work properly.

Trinean

According to Russ <uymqlp502@sneakemail.com>:
> I recently discovered the convenience of a mouse with a scroll wheel.
> I have one working on a Mac and one on a PC. These are USB laser
> mice. When I plug one into my Sunblade 2000, the mouse works fine
> except for the scroll wheel. Is there a way to make the scroll wheel
> work? Thanks.

Which OS are you running? I've got an Ultra-60 with Solaris 10
U3 installed, and I plugged in a cheap ($18.00) USB 2.0 PCI card into
the system, and it is quite happy to use a Logitech USB trackball with
the scroll wheel. And it works quite nicely on many programs, while
some (such as the editor "jove") simply ignore the scroll wheel.

This suggests that Solaris 10 U 3, at least, knows how to use a
wheel -- and a USB mouse -- even when the Ultra-60 did not come with a
built-in USB.

I *did* go into the trackball and weaken the spring for using
the wheel as a a middle mouse button, because otherwise my fingertip
tends to deform around it and also press the right button, pretty much
negating the middle button function.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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"Russ" <uymqlp502@sneakemail.com> writes:
>I recently discovered the convenience of a mouse with a scroll wheel.
>I have one working on a Mac and one on a PC. These are USB laser
>mice. When I plug one into my Sunblade 2000, the mouse works fine
>except for the scroll wheel. Is there a way to make the scroll wheel
>work? Thanks.

You probably need to update your OS and/or X patches some.

I have a microsoft optical scroll wheel mouse on my SunBlade 100.
Works the best for newer rev Solaris 10 X patches. Solaris 9 some rev
patchs worked as well. I don't think Solaris 9 FCS or earlier did.

"Russ" <uymqlp502@sneakemail.com> writes:

>I recently discovered the convenience of a mouse with a scroll wheel.
>I have one working on a Mac and one on a PC. These are USB laser
>mice. When I plug one into my Sunblade 2000, the mouse works fine
>except for the scroll wheel. Is there a way to make the scroll wheel
>work? Thanks.

I've been using a generic USB scroll mouse on a generic PCI USB adapter
in an Ultra 10 for many years. So yes, it is possible.

The scroll wheel support was added to some S9 update or patch; it is
a standard feature in S10. You need to update Solaris.

Casper
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In comp.sys.sun.admin Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@sun.com> wrote:
> The scroll wheel support was added to some S9 update or patch; it is
> a standard feature in S10. You need to update Solaris.

Judging from the patch README for the Solaris 9 Xsun patch, one
probably needs these for mouse wheel support:

112785-36 (or greater) X11 6.6.1: Xsun patch
115553-08 (or greater) SunOS 5.9 USB Drivers & Framework patch
115004-02 (or greater) SunOS 5.9 kbtrans patch
117418-01 (or greater) SunOS 5.9 consms patch

hth,

mp.
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On 2007-03-21, Casper H.S Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:
> "Russ" <uymqlp502@sneakemail.com> writes:
>
>>I recently discovered the convenience of a mouse with a scroll wheel.
>>I have one working on a Mac and one on a PC. These are USB laser
>>mice. When I plug one into my Sunblade 2000, the mouse works fine
>>except for the scroll wheel. Is there a way to make the scroll wheel
>>work? Thanks.
>
> I've been using a generic USB scroll mouse on a generic PCI USB adapter
> in an Ultra 10 for many years. So yes, it is possible.
>
> The scroll wheel support was added to some S9 update or patch; it is
> a standard feature in S10.

This is really good news. You'd be amazed how many times my finger
"looks" for the scroll wheel on my Sun.

Anyone recommend a particular USB card to go in my U60?


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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:

>This is really good news. You'd be amazed how many times my finger
>"looks" for the scroll wheel on my Sun.

>Anyone recommend a particular USB card to go in my U60?

All really work for mice and such. There are basically three types:
uhci, ohci, ehci. People generally tend to avoid VIA cards.

(Don't believe the label on the box; I bought a card labelled ohci but
it turned out to be a uhci/ehci card (schizophrenic devices where the
2.0 devices connect on ehci and the 1.1 devices appear on uhci.)

But because I bought the wrong card I ported the x86 uhci driver to
SPARC and you'll find that driver in Solaris 10 (common source for
x86/amd64/SPARCv9, of course)

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According to Huge <huge@huge.org.uk>:
> On 2007-03-21, Casper H.S Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:

[ ... ]

> > The scroll wheel support was added to some S9 update or patch; it is
> > a standard feature in S10.
>
> This is really good news. You'd be amazed how many times my finger
> "looks" for the scroll wheel on my Sun.
>
> Anyone recommend a particular USB card to go in my U60?

Well ... *I* am using in my U60 a card from StarTech.com whose
label is simply:

4 Port USB 2.0 PCI Card

and the model number is:

PCI425USB.

It apparently cost me $16.99 at MicroCenter a couple of months ago.

I'm using it with a Logitech Trackball.

It also seems to work fine with an older CF card interface (probably
USB 1.1), but at least one newer one has problems with it in combination
with faster 1GB and 4GB CF cards. It hangs up in the early part of a
large transfer. (So that CF reader is being moved to the token Windows
box normally used for the income tax software and nothing else. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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Hi,

Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
>
>
>>This is really good news. You'd be amazed how many times my finger
>>"looks" for the scroll wheel on my Sun.
>
>
>>Anyone recommend a particular USB card to go in my U60?
>
>
> All really work for mice and such. There are basically three types:
> uhci, ohci, ehci. People generally tend to avoid VIA cards.
>
> (Don't believe the label on the box; I bought a card labelled ohci but
> it turned out to be a uhci/ehci card (schizophrenic devices where the
> 2.0 devices connect on ehci and the 1.1 devices appear on uhci.)
>
> But because I bought the wrong card I ported the x86 uhci driver to
> SPARC and you'll find that driver in Solaris 10 (common source for
> x86/amd64/SPARCv9, of course)
>
> Casper
Excellent Engineering thinking

/michael