Hi,

The problem was in Logitech driver for 'Marble Mouse' trackball.
When I uninstalled it the forth button showed up in xev with id 7.
Sorry, I haven't tried the snapshot with debugging.

Thanks,
George Prikhodko


> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.13.2-2
> 
> On 13/02/2013 17:46, PRIKHODKO, GEORGE wrote:
> > Only very small problem, my trackball has 4 buttons.
> > I ran xev to see events generated by the mouse.
> > Three of the buttons are mapped by default as follows: 1, 3 and 6.
> > For the fourth button xev didn't show any events. I tried it with and 
> > without -
> emulate3buttons option.
> > How did I find out this? Until you corrected the code I used xmodmap to 
> > remap
> button 6 to button 2. Button 6 is not very conveniently located on the 
> trackball, so I
> wanted to remap the other button, but couldn't find it id.
> > If this is something you can fix too, I'll greatly appreciate it.
> 
> The default button mapping is:
> 
> 1 left
> 2 middle
> 3 right
> 4 wheel up
> 5 wheel down
> 6 extra button 1
> 7 extra button 2
> 
> So, I would naively expect the 4th button on your device to be extra button 2,
> and reported by X as button 7.
> 
> I borrowed a 5 button mouse for some brief testing, and as far as I can tell
> the button mapping for extra buttons 1 and 2 is working correctly.
> 
> If you'd like to try to investigate this a bit further, it would be helpful if
> you could:
> * Download the latest snapshot built with debugging enabled from [1], and
> install it using the instructions 'Preparation (alternative approach)' at [2]
> * Run it using 'WIN_DEBUG_MESSAGES=1 ./XWin -logverbose 3 <your usual
> XWin
> options, -multiwindow for example>'
> * Look at the debug output from XWin and see what Windows messages (if any)
> are reported when the 4th button is clicked
> 
> (As a separate issue, it also looks like this mapping may not be ideal, as the
> default on linux is for 6 and 7 to be used for tilt wheel left and tilt wheel
> right, and extra buttons as 8 and 9, and there are applications out there
> which can use that...)
> 
> [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/
> [2] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html


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