My mouse wheel went crazy.

I was using fluxbox and firefox, then I installed gnome yesterday. Now my mouse wheel "jumps up and down" when I try to scroll webpages. It even does it if I am using fluxbox. Or using the rox filemanager.
My /etc/X11/XF86Config hasn't changed since the 4-4-2004, and of course has the lines:
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
It is "active", it just jumps back the opposite direction I scroll in. I can't scroll webpages, just makes them jump up and down.
Any ideas whats going on with my mouse? It's a Kensington USB optical mouse. The only thing I can think of is that installing Gnome and all its little pieces screwed something up.

whol wrote:It's a Kensington USB optical mouse...
I have a USB optical mouse as well. Change your "Device" option and "Protocol" option. The entry you should have is:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
I think you just had some bad combinations of settings. "/dev/usbmouse" is just a symlink to "/dev/input/mice", but make sure you are using the "ImPS/2" protocol as well. My scroll works in every application. Hope that helps.

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