portupgrade xorg-* -> mouse-wheel stops working under X

Andrea Venturoli ml.diespammer at netfence.it
Thu Feb 2 03:20:46 PST 2006


Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:11:44AM -0500, George Fazio wrote:
>> I had the same issue. My mouse wheel stopped working, and imwheel started
>> using it for my broswer back/forward (instead of the buttons it's suppose to
>> use). I was able to get the mouse wheel working again by editing my
>> xorg.conf file, but I'm still having issues with imwheel which seem to stem
>> from xmodmap saying my mouse should have 11 buttons and not 7 (which worked
>> prior to the upgrade).
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> Sorry for getting back so late, but I've been away from any email for
> the past days.
> 
> In short - it worked using your setup. Interestingly that you have to
> disable moused in order to get the mouse fully working under X. Even
> more interesting that nobody else seems to have stumbled across this
> problem...


Not exactly, at least not for me.
I experienced the same problem, but I'm still using moused. I only had 
to remove
moused_flags="-z 4 5" #may not have been exactly so, I'm going by heart
from /etc/rc.conf.

Hope it helps.

  bye
	av.


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