PS/2 mouse via USB adaptor not properly configured

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 08:40:20AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 10/08/09 06:06, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > [.. skip ]
> >
> >> (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
> >> (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
> >> (WW) Disabling TrackmanFX
> >
> >     ^^^
> >
> > the devices are added by HAL, the configuration option is ignored. Either
> > set AutoAddDevices to "off" in the server layout section or configure
> > through HAL. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration
> >
> 
> Using "AutoAddDevices false" these warnings disappear. AngleOffset works
> now, but the scroll wheel emulation still doesn't. And it breaks DontZap,
> too :-(.

It breaks DontZap? that's rather...surprising.

> xev shows that button 8 does not produce any events, even if I comment out
> the scroll wheel emulation. I tried another Trackman FX for verification,
> so I doubt that this is a hardware problem.
> 
> Here is the current mouse entry in xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier "TrackmanFX"
> 	Driver "mouse"
> 	Option "CorePointer"
> 	Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option "Name" "TrackMan Marble FX"
> 	Option "Vendor" "Logitech"
> 	Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> 	Option "AngleOffset" "10"
> 	Option "Buttons" "9"
> 	Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> 	Option "EmulateWheel" "1"
> 	Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
> 	Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 	Option "XAxisMapping"   "6 7"
> EndSection

it's always hard to figure out what's wrong without the matching sections in
the log file. best at this point is to file a bugreport and attach your
log file there.

Cheers,
  Peter