Bug 114151 – evdev in modular xorg switches the middle and right mouse button

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Roel Brook 2005-12-01 07:34:32 UTC]

After emerging xf86-input-evdev and configuring xorg to use evdev for my mouse
(logitech mx518), the right and middle mouse button are switched. 

xev reports the buttons:
left (1)
middle (3)
right (2)

Not all people using the driver have the problem. The only thing I can find is "
I fixed the evdev driver myself", but can't find a patch anywhere.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.




root@Medusa# emerge info                       (...rk/xf86-input-evdev-1.0.0.2)
Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r0,
2.6.14-nitro2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-nitro2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.14
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow
-mfpmath=sse,387 -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control
/var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow
-mfpmath=sse,387 -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
LANG="nl_NL@euro"
LC_ALL="nl_NL@euro"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O9 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/gentopia"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa apache2
apm audiofile automount avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bonobo browserplugin
bzip2 bzlib cairo calender cdb cdparanoia cdr cdrom chipcard chm chroot cjk
clearcase crypt cups curl dba dbus divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds
emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam festival ffmpeg filepro firefox flac
flatfile font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2
gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib
insecure-drivers ithreads java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdgraphics kqemu lcms ldap
libcaca libg++ libwww live logitech-mouse lua mad matroska mhash mikmod mime mmx
mmxext mng mono motif mozdevelop mozilla moznomail moznoxft mp3 mpeg mplayer msn
musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nvidia odbc offensive ogg
oggvorbis ooo-kde openal opengl pam pascal patches pcre pdf pdflib perl php pic
png postgres python qmail qt quicktime rar readline real recode rplay samba
scanner sdk sdl session sftplogging slang softmmu speex spell sql sqlite sse ssl
startup-notification stroke subtitles subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex
theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb
userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vidix visualization vorbis webservices win32codecs
wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zip zlib
video_cards_nvidia linguas_nl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-01 10:36:15 UTC]

Couldn't find a Gentoo duplicate, but this is a known upstream bug. We'll
continue to track it there.

[Comment 2 Tomas Carnecky 2005-12-01 14:32:53 UTC]

you could try my patch:
http://dbservice.com/tom/xf86-input-evdev-1.0.0.1-gentoo.patch
this patch also applies cleanly to 1.0.0.2.

[Comment 3 Roel Brook 2005-12-01 18:03:22 UTC]

Thanks tomas!

That fixed it!

Judging from the bug on freedesktop.org, this bug only appears in Gentoo (or
other distro's aren't "cutting-edge" enough to include modular xorg). Therefor,
it might be a good idea to include this patch in portage?

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-01 19:27:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Judging from the bug on freedesktop.org, this bug only appears in Gentoo (or
> other distro's aren't "cutting-edge" enough to include modular xorg).

Try the latter.

>  Therefor, it might be a good idea to include this patch in portage?

Nope, not until there's a known-good fix in X.Org CVS

[Comment 5 Roel Brook 2005-12-02 16:42:22 UTC]

ah, so that's why non-gentoo users haven't confirmed it :)

Tomas' patch fixes it good enough to downgrade the bug to trivial, but there's
still a slight problem:

when in a game, such as ut2004 or enemy territory, when I select options, and I
map the right mouse button, it still says "middle mouse". When I map the middle
mouse button, it says "right mouse button".

As I said, this is trivial. It doesn't matter if et thinks I alt-fire with my
middle mouse button. It's still something that should get fixed though. Let's
see what they can come up with upstream :)

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-02 19:15:33 UTC]

I think it's been fixed upstream, but it was a pretty major commit so we'll
catch it with RC3, which should come out anytime now.