Bug#366787: xserver-xorg-input-mouse: left/right events when scrolling up/down too quickly
Package: xserver-xorg-input-mouse
Version: 1:1.0.4-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Justification: makes mouse scroll wheels almost completely useless
When using my mouse in Firefox, among other applications, scrolling up or down
very quickly generates left and right events instead of the proper ones. Since
I quite often hold down keys for a bit too long, this results in moving forward
and backward in Firefox, instead of scrolling in the desired direction.
Alan Coopersmith, who works on X for Sun Microsystems posted in his blog about
this[0]. There is also an *upstream* patch[1]!
I would greatly appreciate if this could be fixed fairly soon.
Thank you.
[0] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alanc/20060504
[1] http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse/src/mouse.c?r1=1.27&r2=1.28
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-mouse depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
xserver-xorg-input-mouse recommends no packages.
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