On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > > [...] > > > I wonder if this would be explained by the following changelog entry: > > > > xfree86 (4.2.1-12) unstable; urgency=high > > [...] > > * patch #097: new; add Bartosz Zapalowski's patch for supporting wheel mice > > with large numbers of buttons; the ZAxisMapping option "pushes up" the > > other buttons so that the mouse behaves sanely. This addresses problems > > with how the X server parses wheel data from at least some devices that > > use the ExplorerPS/2 protocol. (Closes: #166550) > > [...] > > -- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:34:48 -0500 > > Could be that. The changelog doesn't describe the behaviour I saw, > but it certainly looks like the right area of code. Well, I think what the code does is make buttons that were formerly numbered 6 and 7 numbered 4 and 5 instead. > > How recently did you notice this change in scroll wheel behavior? > > What version of the xfree86 packages were you running previously? > > Very recently (in the last couple of weeks). So September 2003 > doesn't seem possible. I've been running unstable for about a year, > (updating most days) so I've presumably been running 4.2.1-12 and > later for a long time. You didn't happen to have your X server up for a good 8--10 months, did you? :) -- G. Branden Robinson | I'm not going to waste my precious Debian GNU/Linux | flash memory with Perl when I can branden@debian.org | do so much more with it. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Joey Hess
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