Bug#374652: xserver-xorg-input-mouse: trouble trying to permute mouse buttons (lefthanded)

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 18:39 +0200, depuis wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:23 +0200, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > That is, with the left-handed config, pressing either button 1 or 3
> > > generates both events. Any clue ?
> > 
> > Just a guess, but xmodmap (and XFCE is probably using the same
> > mechanism) only affects the core pointer. Do you have any other
> > non-CorePointer pointer devices configured in X?
> > 
> There is indeed a built-in mouse:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Laptop Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/misc/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> So ... I guess there is some repeater working from behind ? 

Yes, /dev/(misc/)psaux is just an alias for /dev/input/mice with 2.6
kernels.

> How to sort it out ?

Ditch the non-CorePointer? :)


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