Re: Scroll wheels not working after upgrade to etch/xorg
On 9/15/07, Christian Leng <rookie999.ly@gmail.com> wrote:
> simply doing "#dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" may work well--of coz,
> make a backup of your xorg.conf first.
>
> 2007/9/15, Pigeon <pigeon@pigeonsnest.co.uk>:
> > On doing a dist-upgrade which pulled in xorg I found my scroll wheels were
> > no longer working. Either they did nothing at all or they simulated the
> press
> > of some unknown key on the keyboard and activated all manner of keyboard
> > shortcuts that I didn't know existed.
> >
> > The scroll wheels were still generating events, but not the right ones
> > any more.
> >
> > Google merely turned up a few other baffled people with a similar problem.
> >
> > The solution turned out to be to include
> >
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
> >
> > in xorg.conf.
> >
> > The existing xorg.conf simply had the Emulate3Buttons line commented out,
> > and it seems from the log file that xorg was defaulting to enabling
> > Emulate3Buttons. Explicitly disabling Emulate3Buttons got my scroll wheels
> > working again.
> >
> > I hope someone somewhere finds this useful.
> >
> > --
> > Pigeon
> >
> > Be kind to pigeons - - Pigeon's Nest:
> http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/
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dpkg-reconfigure will back your original xorg.conf automatically.
Just do it :-)
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