Scroll key doesnt work/have an effect

Heyo,

i got a pocket reform recently and i really love it <3
The only thing which doesn’t seem to work in sway is the scroll key. Every other key works.

I searched via journalctk, dmesg.. but i can’t find any hint or error why it doesn’t work.
Also updated the keyboard firmware now.. still nothing.

Any hints/tipps how i can debug this?

Thanks!

just installed libinput and the key isn’t recognized there either ^^v
all other ‘mousebuttons’ keys are captured there

Clicking the scroll key by itself would not generate a key code to be detected. Instead holding the scroll Key down changes the behavior of the trackball to a scroll knob vs mouse movement.

Did you try rolling the trackball while holding the key to see if you generate an input event?

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oh, i didn’t know. Thanks!
but sadly not.. just the normal pointer motion events

event1   POINTER_MOTION          365  +41.752s	 -2.16/  0.00 ( -2.00/ +0.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          366  +41.760s	 -2.00/  0.00 ( -2.00/ +0.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          367  +41.772s	 -2.00/  0.00 ( -2.00/ +0.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          368  +41.780s	  0.00/ -2.00 ( +0.00/ -2.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          369  +41.793s	  0.00/ -4.00 ( +0.00/ -4.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          370  +41.800s	  0.00/ -7.05 ( +0.00/ -6.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          371  +41.813s	  5.23/ -7.85 ( +4.00/ -6.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          372  +41.820s	  5.56/ -8.34 ( +4.00/ -6.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          373  +41.833s	  5.56/ -8.34 ( +4.00/ -6.00)
event1   POINTER_MOTION          374  +41.840s	  4.80/ -2.40 ( +4.00/ -2.00)

mhh maybe i rly need to pull out a multi-meter :thinking:

I think you probably do - this should work out of the box with the standard keyboard firmware and send a scroll event so it’s likely a bad connection.