I'm using Mad Catz R.A.T 5 and recently I started having problems with the my mouse scroll wheel.
When i'm scrolling up or down in google chrome, steam or anything else, my mouse scroll wheel isn't responding sometimes or jumps up or down which is really weird.
I tried this mouse on Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit and Windows 10 64-bit, tried connecting the mouse usb cable to a different location in my pc, and even a different pc and i'm still having this problems, I also tried a clean reinstall of the mouse drivers, clean the mouse wheel from dumb and tried restarting my pc as well.
Nothing seems to be working and it's getting really annoying, could you guys help me out?
Thanks =]
Windows – Mouse scroll wheel is jumpy
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Many honest thanks to everyone here and on Reddit, especially @dirkt, for all the help. In the end, I went with the nuclear option: I wiped my root partition and reinstalled Linux. My scrollwheel works flawlessly now, and it fixed a few other problems I was having.
I don't recommend this for most users who run into a problem like this, though it does work. Go through some work trying to fix it before nuking everything (and of course, back up all your data first).
I'm now on Linux Mint 18.2 using the default 4.8 kernel. I can update my question with more information if anyone is curious about what the same command outputs are now.
There's a diode (probably infrared) and a receptor, one on either sides of the wheel, soldered directly into the green PCB. Wheel is SPOKED, and by turning it you interrupt light travelling from the diode to the sensor. No magic there.
Oh, and dust sitting in there can permanently block sensor from any light coming from the diode, so there's no way for it to register interruptions, that's why the wheel appear to not work.
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You have to clean your scroll sensor. Dust/hair/etc. can block its work or it can wok in inappropriate way. You can refer to this video for how-to's. Video is about R.A.T 9, but i think it should be almost the same it fifth.