[wellylug] USB Mouse weirdness under Debian/sarge

[Jamie Baddeley]

Hi John,

This is reasonably straightforward.

It'll be a matter of running:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
This will drive you through a menu system, where you'll arrive at stuff
asking you about a mouse -try the different options (I think there's
about 8) from there.

There's another section asking about a 3 button mouse - that might be
worth testing that out too - and also one on scroll events...


good luck

jamie

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 22:08, John Fouhy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I bought a new HDD, so I had to reinstall Debian, and I decided to go 
> with sarge and the new Debian installer.
> 
> My computer, which is a laptop, has a USB wheelmouse.  The mouse works, 
> with one problem: when I scroll the wheel, it sends two events, not one.
> 
> ie, one atomic movement of the wheel produces this with xev:
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> ButtonPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>      root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 2429664, (109,91), root:(678,177),
>      state 0x0, button 5, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>      root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 2429664, (109,91), root:(678,177),
>      state 0x1000, button 5, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>      root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 2429664, (109,91), root:(678,177),
>      state 0x0, button 5, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>      root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 2429664, (109,91), root:(678,177),
>      state 0x1000, button 5, same_screen YES
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Left/right/middle click produce just one pair of press/release events as 
> per expectation.
> 
> Any clues?  I really have no idea where to start looking for the problem 
> here.  Everything worked correctly under my previous Debian install 
> (when I was still running the latest kernel).
> 
> -- 
> John.
>