losing the -z option to moused worked?

[John Reynolds]

Hello all, I recently upgraded my system from an ancient 5.1-CURRENT to
6.1-BETA2 and all was going fine until my trusty Logitech plain-jane 3-button
mouse with scroll wheel wouldn't scroll with the wheel :)

I grepped the list archives and googled quite a bit and it appears that in Xorg
6.9.0 they changed some behavior regarding mouse buttons.

I had had "-z 4" in my moused_flags variable before in 5.1-CURRENT so I put
that in there this time too. However, after changing a million different
settings of ZAxisMapping and Buttons and ButtonMapping (as some people on the
net had suggested) nothing was working.

So, just experimenting I took the "-z 4" out of moused's flags, shut it down
and restarted it and entered X with

        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Buttons" "5"

in my X config and low and behold things "behave" like I expect them to with
wheel scrolls automatically mapping to button4/button5 events.

So, I'm not sure if others who have tracked 6-STABLE have had this happen with
the latest Xorg brought in, but perhaps this is the proper solution that might
work for others. All I know is that it worked, so therefore I'm happy :)

-Jr

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