Re: Inverted mouse wheel since refurbishment of moused?

On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 07:33:15PM +0200, A FreeBSD User wrote:
> A while ago /usr/sbin/moused has seen some refurbishment. Since then in X11 the mousewheel is
> inverted. I'm on CURRENT and 15-STABLE. Mouse is right hand. Moving the wheel "away" was
> supposed to scroll DOWN towards the last entry (i.e. within an xterm), moving (or rotating, if
> you like) the wheel towards me was supposed to scroll UPWARD towards historical entries. Up to
> the time of this inversion there was no difference between Microsofts handling of the
> mousewheel. Now, switching between M$ Windows and my lab's FBSD installation is a pain, my
> limited brains capacity doens't compute the inversion of the axis very fast. Since I do not
> use fancy things on how to configure the mouse in Windows I suppose its the standard how I
> use the mouse (I use Windows for department's Email, just that), in FreeBSD's X11 I used for
> years now either no extra config or  
> 
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7".
> 
> First guess was to shuffle "4 5 6 7", but whatever the order of the numbers is, it has no
> effect.
> 
> What triggers this inversion  and how to restore the "legacy" or, more suitable, the
> traditional way?
> 
Have you tried a different mouse?  

Just to be clear, on a RasPiOS machine I see
Wheel top surface away from user, text scrolls down in window
wheel top surfacace toward user, text scrolls up in window

It's been a while since I last used X on FreeBSD

I _have_ observed scroll wheels "going backwards" on 
a pair of old Dell mice that I use a great deal. 
Contact cleaner applied to the encoder, which seems
to be a mechanical switch, fixes it for extened intervals.
That behavior was quite erratic, but debris in an optical
encoder might conceivably do something similar, perhaps
in a more consistent way.

hth,

bob prohaska