Xorg now ignoring input configuration in xorg.conf

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:56:05PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> 2009/9/15 William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>:
> > After a recent dist-upgrade of my Debian testing system, my
> > EmulateWheel button is no longer acknowledged in X.
> >
> > I filed a bug report, only to be told that it's not a bug, but that
> > evdev is handling all input devices, and that the change in behaviour is
> > not a bug.  (I disagree - if you make a change that invalidates a
> > configuration file, it is a bug.)
> >
> > That is fine for what it is worth, but the question now is, how do I
> > configure my Logitech Marble Mouse to use one of its buttons for scroll
> > wheel emulation?  The evdev man page is not as helpful as I was hoping.
> 
> Wow.  If this is the man page you're referring to:
> 
> http://linux.die.net/man/4/evdev
> 
> then you have a talent for understatement: that is totally and utterly useless.
> 
> If anyone can answer this one, I'd be very interested too.  Not that I
> have a Logitech Marble Mouse, but I've had run-ins with evdev before
> and a quick Google search for documentation is coming up distinctly
> empty.
> 
> Hmm: this version of the man page has more information, but is ... challenging:
> 
> http://man-wiki.net/index.php/4:evdev

Is this helpful?

http://mvogt.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/xorg-evdev-and-emulatewheel/

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