xf86-input-mouse issues

[Christoph Brill]

Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 23:07 +0200 schrieb Christoph Brill:
> Hi list,
> 
> I still stumble upon several problems in xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1. First:
> there are random "scroll left" events when I scroll down really fast.
> This mostly happens in eclipse in some several thousand lines of code
> file (if that matters).
> Second: My mousewheel click are often not detected. Or when the click is
> detected and I click for a longer time (i.e. in blender moving the
> camera) the state that it's clicked is "forgotten". Or if I double click
> to get the click detected once, the first one is ignored and the second
> one is detected twice (i.e. when copying text, first click: nothing
> happens, second click: text appears twice).
> 
> IIRC I read that something like the first issue was fixed in the driver
> some time ago (IIRC I read it in an announcement of xf86-input-mouse).
> But it still happens to me. Can someone confirm this?
> 
> I'm sometimes blaming my wireless mouse for that issue, but it has never
> happened in windows or in console gpm. So I'm not 100% sure. If I
> cat /dev/input/mice something happens when I click the
> mousewheel-button. But in xev nothing happens. Can someone help me with
> this? Or do I have to dig through the source and find it myself?
> 
> I will report a bug if someone else is seeing this. The first problem
> happens on a wired and a wireless mouse (both logitech), the second only
> happened on my wireless one.
> 
> But first I'll be on vacation for two weeks and will be happily reading
> the ansers to my question when I come back ;-)
> 
> Regards and keep up the good work(!),
>   Christoph

Another and completely different issue:
Why was the manpage of the git-version of xf86-input-mouse renamed to
"mousedrv"? I guess the normal user will not type "man mousedrv" when
searching for the mousedriver, but most likely "man mouse". But that's
just what I think :-)