On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is > > > buggier than a 10 day old carcass. > > > > > > Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not a > > > long trip. ;) > > > > > > When it works, its 20x more sensitive sideways than vertically, and I > > > can't get my fingers far enough away from the pad to stop its crazy > > > behavior, and still rest them in a comfy location for button pushing. > > > > > > Is there anything I can put in an /etc/X11 file that will shut the > > > side scroll function off, but leave the vertical finger drags > > > working? > > > > attach an evemu recording and your xorg.log to a bug please. I don't > > have a recording for this one yet so it's hard to tell. > > > > Cheers, > > Peter > > First off Peter, evemu is not 'locate'able. And I'm not sure you want the > current Xorg.0.log in your mailbox as its north of 179 megabytes.
you could have restarted X, or started another session for a fresh log file. or cut down the thousands of lines of errors which is likely what 99% of the log file are if it grows to that size in a week. > I even sicc'd synaptic to find it in the ubuntu repo, and came up dry > there too. evemu shows up as second link on google for me: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Evemu/ but tbh, if you're on a 4 year old box you're pretty much on your own, sorry. there may have been kernel fixes since, there may have been evdev fixes since, etc. Cheers, Peter > > This is a 10.04.4 LTS server install with enough kde pulled in to get > kmail & friends. > > I can copy/paste the relevant module loading bits. Here if it would help. > > THere is about 160 megabytes of this in the log: > > (II) LoadModule: "fb" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so > (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4 > (**) FBDEV(0): using shadow framebuffer > (II) Loading sub module "shadow" > (II) LoadModule: "shadow" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so > (II) Module shadow: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.1.0 > ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4 > (II) UnloadModule: "nv" > (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so > (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp > (==) FBDEV(0): Backing store disabled > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > > > Which is repeated at least 1000 times, then later after it has found my > pcHDTV-3000 card: > > (II) MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (cx88xx): initialized for relative axes. > (II) config/udev: Adding input device MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (cx88xx) > (/dev/input/mouse0) > (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > > I'd guess another 165 megabytes of that to the end of the log. Uptime is > a week & small change. > > I didn't even know the tv card had a mouse port? But I'll be dipped, it > actually has a ps2 socket on the back of it! But I'm not sure I still > have one of those critters. > > > > Even that goes away quite frequently, and I have to turn the mouse > > > over, shut it off for a second or two & turn it back on, at which > > > point it works fairly well but will eventually become intermittent > > > in its response for an hour or so before completely dying, the the > > > screen cursor still follows it well, and the two buttons work well. > > > But I've blamed that on a buggy mouse. > > > > > > This is extremely distracting when I am writing code in geany (gedit > > > does not have a sideways scroll, but it has trashed important source > > > code file entirly too often, geany never has) because I have to drag > > > the bar on the bottom back the the left stop in order to see what I > > > am writing. I need help since the mouse makers figured out how to > > > sell the high priced versions by putting the optical eye way back > > > under the palm of our hands instead of up under your fingers in the > > > #<$50 models. So the <$50 mice aren't at all intuitive to use > > > because you are forced to move the whole arm when using them. > > > Thanks Peter. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
