New subject: [suse-xfree86] update breaks cut/paste with middle mouse button

9 May 2006

      I noticed something similar with on my ThinkPad when using the track point device.  I enable the "EmulateWheelButton" option to allow scrolling by holding down the middle button, and moving the pointer up/down to scroll.  I believe that this is something new in the version of xorg that comes with SuSE 10.  Check for config file for the "EmulateWheel" and "EmulateWheelButton" options.

I have several mouse drivers setup in my xorg.conf file.  The first one /dev/input/mouse0 is always the built-in track point device, and the other is for my USB scroll mouse.  I CAN use my middle button on my external USB mouse; but to make this work I had to setup separate InputDevice sections.

Hopefully this is helpful or not.  If you do have a setup similar to mine, I have a couple more "pointers" that may be useful.  (Sorry, for the bad pun).

- Lowell Alleman

Some xorg.conf stuff:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse[1]"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option      "Name" "Internal tp pointer"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        #########################################
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
        Option      "EmulateWheel" "on"
        Option      "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
        #########################################
        Option      "Vendor" "Sysp"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse[2]"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "ButtonNumber" "5"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
        Option      "Name" "External USB wheel Mouse (usbport1)"
        Option      "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
        Option      "Vendor" "Sysp"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

# rpm -qa | grep xorg
xorg-x11-Mesa-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-100.2
xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-100.5
xorg-x11-6.8.2-100.2

(Look's like these are same version that you are using)

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric@3times25.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:08 AM
To: suse-xfree86@suse.com
Subject: [suse-xfree86] update breaks cut/paste with middle mouse button

SuSE 10 here.

I've just updated the latest xorg via YaST and after restarting X, with 
no changes to my config file, my middle mouse button is no longer 
recognized.  Wierd thing is, the scrolling of the button is recogized.

Anyone else see this behavior??  xorg versions:

xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-100.2
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-100.5
xorg-x11-Xprt-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-driver-options-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-syriac-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Mesa-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-static-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.2-100
xorg-x11-6.8.2-100.2

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Until later, Geoffrey

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RE: [suse-xfree86] update breaks cut/paste with middle mouse button

Alleman, Lowell

Geoffrey

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