The problem still exists in Ubuntu 13.10. I was unable to do the requested test in the daily build because the daily build is not functional enough. Booting from the live CD, the mouse did no initially work. I had to unplug it and plug it back in before I could click on the "try ubuntu" button. Once Ubuntu started, I had no menus at all. I had two icons: Install Ubuntu and examples. Clicking on the examples icon brought up a file browser in a fixed sized window with no window decorations (no maximize, no minimize, no close button) I found a way to run firefox, it also had no window decorations. In an attempt to get a window up with a horizontal scroll bar, I tried typing a URL, and found that the keyboard was not working. At this point I realized I could do nothing usefull with this live CD, ejected it and hit the reset button on my computer.
-- 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
