DAP, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /daily-live/current/ .
If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report: apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-evdev REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful. Thank you for your understanding. Helpful bug reporting tips: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-evdev in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317025 Title: Scroll ball will not scroll horizontally Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is similar to a bunch of other "horizontal scroll does not work" bugs, but I did not find any of those that were close enough that I could call this a duplicate. The mouse is a Compaq CPQ750TP. It shows up as "Acrox USB & PS/2 Mouse" when plugged into the PC directly, and "ATEN CS1784" when plugged into my KVM (it works identically regardless how it is plugged in). The mouse has a scroll ball and 5 buttons. I have spent quite some time attempting to get the horizontal scrolling to work. I have the following in a .fdi file in the /etc/hal/fdi/policy directory: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.product" string="Acrox USB & PS/2 Mouse"> <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge> </match> </device> <device> <match key="info.product" string="ATEN CS1784"> <merge key="input.x11_options.ButtonMapping" type="string">1 2 3 4 5 10 11 8 9 6 7</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">0</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">0</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">10 11</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> Horizontal scrolling works perfectly on Windows 2000 (different computer, same KVM & mouse) Attempting to scroll horizontally in Ubuntu gets fast vertical scrolling. If I monitor events with "xinput test 4" Left button maps to button 1, middle button (pushing down on ball) maps to button 2, right button maps to button 3 left side button maps to button 8, right button maps to button 9, vertical scroll with ball maps to buttons 4 & 5, horizontal scroll with ball also maps to buttons 4 & 5, but each event is repeated 7 times. It appears as if horizontal scrolling should be mapping to buttons 6 & 7. The hal file above was an attempt at a work arround to remap 6 & 7 to 10 & 11, but the remapping to 4 & 5 is still happening. Wild speculation: someone has hard wired his preferences into the driver. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 Not sure where this problem is happening, but my guess is evdev. Horizontal scrolling is very important to me. I do CAD work, and being able to scroll in two dimensions around a large drawing is very helpful. To that end, I have purchased at least 8 different mice with scroll balls on them trying to find one that works well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/317025/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
