Strange issue with hal and Xorg

[Matt Hayes]

Hrm.. so where the heck is the "32" buttons coming from?  That's very
odd and causes mapping of buttons to be a pita.

-Matt

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:20:16AM -0400, Matt Hayes wrote:
>> Normally, xorg.conf I could map my buttons using ZAxisMapping "4 5" and
>> ButtonMapping "1 2 3 6 7" and Buttons "7" and things were dandy.
>>
>> Well, after the latest updates to Slackware and Xorg, what I'm seeing
>> now is the side buttons on my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3 are
>> mapping the buttons (side buttons) as 8 9 instead of 6 7.
>>
>> However, making a change in xorg.conf to facilitate the change in
>> mapping, things DO work fine in X, but not other applications such as
>> Enemy Territory.
> 
> if HAL takes effect, xorg.conf sections are generally ignored these days. So
> chances are it's not even picking up what you have configured.
> 
> the other chance is of course that your DE is overwriting it on login.
>  
>> Now, what I don't understand is why hal is detecting the mouse as
>> Num_buttons 32... I even created a hal policy to map the buttons how I
>> normally would in xorg.conf and this had no effect.
> 
> HAL is not detecting anything. Think of hal being the equivalent to the
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" line. That's really all it does.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter