From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I upgraded to FC2 and can no longer set my mouse to left-handed. When I do, the buttons start acting strangely. When I return to right-handed, things work as they should. I've tried remapping both with the KDE preferences panel as well as xmodmap. Using xev, here is the result of mouse button presses with normal right-handed mouse mapping: ButtonPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7537222, (56,127), root:(1050,157), state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7537769, (56,127), root:(1050,157), state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES ButtonPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7540039, (56,127), root:(1050,157), state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7540559, (56,127), root:(1050,157), state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES Then, I remapped the mouse by saying: xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5" Now, the mouse presses look like: ButtonPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7509111, (56,129), root:(1050,159), state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES ButtonPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7509111, (56,129), root:(1050,159), state 0x100, button 3, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7509676, (56,129), root:(1050,159), state 0x500, button 1, same_screen YES ButtonRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3600001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 7509676, (56,129), root:(1050,159), state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES I will attach a copy of my XF86Config file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use xmodmap as described above to re-map mouse to left-handed. 2. Watch mouse go haywire. Actual Results: Mouse goes haywire. Expected Results: Mouse buttons should be switched. Additional info:
Created attachment 100561 [details] my X configuration
I commented out the line: InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" from the "ServerLayout" section of my XF86Config file, and now the remapping is working correctly.
I was seeing the exact same problem when upgrading from RH9 to FC2. The suggested fix worked like a charm. Thanks !
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.