Strange bug with mouse wheel scrolling

[Alan Coopersmith]

Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Mar 31, 06 00:00:55 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
>>I have a bug here but I'm not sure if it's an X bug or a Linux kernel bug or
>>perhaps my mouse having some weird hardware failure, though it's never done it
>>before. 
>>
>>Whenever I scroll (vertically) by quickly spinning the mouse wheel it inserts
>>the occasional horizontal scroll. Checking with xev it does in fact send the
>>occasional "button 7" event:
> 
> 
> See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144682
> 
> I didn't have time so far to investigate this further, but your input
> about your mouse model could help here.

I've had reports of this as well with Xorg 6.9 on the Solaris kernel, so I'd
suspect the common code in Xorg over the Linux kernel code.

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