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    PS/2 Mouse Scroll Wheel INOP !!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Old Bob, Jun 7, 2005.

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    Old Bob Notebook Enthusiast

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    Several months ago, I bought a "refurbished" T-21 Thinkpad with Win98SE installed on the 20 gig hard drive. In order to try various Linux distro's, I Fdisked & formatted into two 10 gig partitions. I then reinstalled Win98SE and Red Hat 8.0, both OS's are working "fine".

    I have a scroll wheel mouse plugged into the the PS/2 port. "Old Bob's" fingers are not what they use to be !!

    I "seem to recall" that the scroll wheel was "functional" when I first got the Thinkpad, BEFORE I "formatted" and reinstalled Win98SE.

    I have tried several different Track Point settings in the "Think Pad Configuration" window, and all I've managed to do is "freeze" the cursor a couple of times !!

    Right now, BOTH the mouse AND Track Point "red nub" are FULLY functional [cursor movement & clicking] EXCEPT for the scroll wheel. I have to "drag" the vertical slider up & down.

    Does anybody have a "fix" [driver or setting] ???
     
    Old Bob, Jun 7, 2005
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    FYI: With help from "another Forum" I solved this problem.

    Went to Microsoft Windows Updates and under "IBM Drivers" I found something called "IBM Travel Mouse"

    Downloading two drivers [1.6 MB & 1.2 MB] added a whole new level of "mouse options" to Thinkpad Configuration - Track Point window, including a new icon on taskbar.

    Mouse scroll wheel is now fully operational !!!
     
    Old Bob, Jun 12, 2005
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