I have a Solaris 10 guest on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS. Virtualbox version is 4.1.12 r77245. The scroll wheel on the mouse does not work. There is also a XP guest on the same host, and the scroll wheel works just fine there.
I'm an experienced *nix Admin, but am new to virtualbox. Can anyone offer clues as to where to start?
Solaris 10 Scroll Wheel
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Re: Solaris 10 Scroll Wheel
Well... first of all, how do you know that the scroll wheel is even supposed to do anything?
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Re: Solaris 10 Scroll Wheel
I have a Sunblade 100 running Solaris 10 also. It is side-by-side with my Ubuntu/VB/Solaris box. The scroll wheel on that system works as expected. I can swap mouses with no change without observed differences.
The scroll wheel works fine on my XP virtual guest. The problem is in VB and/or Solaris (I doubt that this is a solaris issue, but anything is possible). In the VB GUI, I see nothing about mouses of any kind. So I suspect that there is a configuration file somewhere that I can hand-edit.
The scroll wheel works fine on my XP virtual guest. The problem is in VB and/or Solaris (I doubt that this is a solaris issue, but anything is possible). In the VB GUI, I see nothing about mouses of any kind. So I suspect that there is a configuration file somewhere that I can hand-edit.
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Re: Solaris 10 Scroll Wheel
The same Solaris 10 version as in your VM? And which one is that, anyway? As you probably know, Solaris 10 has been out for 7 years now and there are significant differences between the various update releases.Geekasaurus wrote:I have a Sunblade 100 running Solaris 10 also.
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Re: Solaris 10 Scroll Wheel
The SunBlade 100 is an old SPARC-based system I bought on Ebay for $25. My Ubuntu/VB system is running on AMD. Yes, I know that they are different versions and releases--they are different hardware. I am hoping that someone can point me to a configuration file on VB so I can fix this.
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Re: Solaris 10 Scroll Wheel
All I'm saying is that there isn't necessarily anything to fix if your Solaris 10 release doesn't support the scroll wheel. But you didn't say which Solaris 10 release you're running, so it's really hard to make any definitive statements.
I can tell you that the initial Solaris 10 release did not support the scroll wheel. Solaris 10 10/09 (S10U8) did. If you're running something in between, I don't know if the scroll wheel is supported or not.
In addition, if you're using the absolute pointer device (USB tablet) with VirtualBox, Solaris won't understand the scroll wheels either. It just doesn't, even though other operating systems do.
I can tell you that the initial Solaris 10 release did not support the scroll wheel. Solaris 10 10/09 (S10U8) did. If you're running something in between, I don't know if the scroll wheel is supported or not.
In addition, if you're using the absolute pointer device (USB tablet) with VirtualBox, Solaris won't understand the scroll wheels either. It just doesn't, even though other operating systems do.