Mouse buttons/scroll directions swapped with recent Xorg

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Mar 14 02:27:26 PDT 2012


Am 14.03.2012 04:32, schrieb Peter Hutterer:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:48:03PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Recently (beginning of February), I performed the following upgrades:
>>
>> xf86-input-evdev (2.6.0-4 -> 2.6.99.901-1)
>> xf86-input-synaptics (1.5.0-1 -> 1.5.99-0.1)
>> xorg-server (1.11.4-1 -> 1.11.99.903-1)
>> xorg-xinput (1.5.3-2 -> 1.5.99.1-1)
>> (Some of these packages have since been updated to their latest releases
>> or newer snapshots, but the problems I describe below remain the same.)
>>
>> Since then, I have two problems:
>>
>> 1) On my ALPS touchpad, the circular scroll direction has been reversed:
>> Scrolling left is now button 5, scrolling right is button 4. (The right
>> edge of the touchpad still scrolls correctly, up is button 4, down is
>> button 5.)
> 
> definitely a regression, patch available here
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/9512/

Thanks, will test ASAP.

>> 2) On my Logitech M555b mouse, buttons 6 and 7 have been swapped.
> 
> Physical buttons or logical (scroll) buttons? If the former, please file a
> bug against evtest and attach a utouch-evemu recording of the button events.  
> see http://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/evemu/

Physical buttons. I'll look into it, thanks for the hints.


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