Strange bug with mouse wheel scrolling

[Rod Butcher]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
> 
I've been getting this with Linux kernel 2.6.13 with x.org 6.9. The 
mouse refuses to scroll vertically at all, just sideways.
Rod