Mouse Wheel in LMDE? (Solved)

[Whitefort]

Hi. I've just tried installing LMDE (in virtualbox), and so far I like it a lot, but it's not recognising my mouse wheel, so I can't scroll in Firefox, LibreOffice, or anything else.

I thought I'd find posts about this issue here, but I can't, so now I'm wondering:

1. Is this something that's so trivial to fix that no one's asked about it, but I'm too inept to know about?
2. Could it be that the problem is just unique to LMDE in VirtualBox?
and, most of all,
3. Can anyone give me any clues on how to fix it?

Thanks!

[xenopeek]

I guess you are using the LMDE 201303 RC? VirtualBox guest additions are not enabled in the kernel I believe, at least that is what other users are reporting on the blog. You can easily enable that.

Step 1, enable the needed modules in the kernel (have a drink or a snack, this can take a few minutes):

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-guest-dkms

It should finish with the message "DKMS: install completed."

Step 2, load the new modules:

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sudo modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo

Mouse wheel should work after those steps. Upon a reboot the modules should be loaded automatically I think, so step 2 is only needed because you haven't rebooted yet.

[Whitefort]

MANY thanks, Xenopeek. Problem solved!

In fact, not only did it solve the mouse wheel problem, it also removed an error notification I'd been getting about the system not finding any 3D hardware.

Thanks again!

[bdsatish]

Worked well for me too, thanks!