evdev driver and xmodmap

[Mike A. Harris]

Ben Skeggs wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.10.2005, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Tomas Carnecky:
> 
>>somehow don't work very well...
>>
>>"pointer = 1 2 3 ..." or "pointer = 1 3 2 ..." didn't change my mouse 
>>buttons as reported by xev. in both cases left,right,middle have been 
>>reported as 1 2 3.
>>
>>However, "pointer = 1 4 5 3 2 ..." changed the middle and right button. 
>>But "pointer = 1 4 5 2 3 ..." didn't.
>>
>>Also, whenever I got the middle/right button working correctly, the 
>>mouse wheel directions were flipped, meaning wheel up caused scrolling 
>>down and vice versa.
>>
>>And now try to test all the possible permutations with 32 buttons.. I 
>>quickly gave up ;) I've ended up modifying the evdev driver itself to 
>>get my mouse buttons working.
> 
> Yeah, I can confirm these same issues here with my MX1000.  Also running
> Gentoo's modular releases.
> 
> Evdev seems horribly broken in the modular release, especially when you
> try to use it for your keyboard as well :)

If the evdev driver is truly broken currently, as long as someone has
filed a detailed bug report for each issue, and marked it as blocking
bug 1690, it will likely get investigated and hopefully fixed before
X11R7 is released.

Hope this helps.
TTYL