On 9/15/07, Christian Leng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > simply doing "#dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" may work well--of coz, > make a backup of your xorg.conf first. > > 2007/9/15, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On doing a dist-upgrade which pulled in xorg I found my scroll wheels were > > no longer working. Either they did nothing at all or they simulated the > press > > of some unknown key on the keyboard and activated all manner of keyboard > > shortcuts that I didn't know existed. > > > > The scroll wheels were still generating events, but not the right ones > > any more. > > > > Google merely turned up a few other baffled people with a similar problem. > > > > The solution turned out to be to include > > > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > > > > in xorg.conf. > > > > The existing xorg.conf simply had the Emulate3Buttons line commented out, > > and it seems from the log file that xorg was defaulting to enabling > > Emulate3Buttons. Explicitly disabling Emulate3Buttons got my scroll wheels > > working again. > > > > I hope someone somewhere finds this useful. > > > > -- > > Pigeon > > > > Be kind to pigeons - - Pigeon's Nest: > http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/ > > GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFG6/dUUxADjyHGH38RAgalAKC5acC+ePtZvS5T0RRd2efYRv+QxQCbBgCc > > K6NbNZUXpbMR/5X/V0w6cBY= > > =cuEx > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > dpkg-reconfigure will back your original xorg.conf automatically. Just do it :-)
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