Description of problem: The apple mighty mouse scroll ball doesn't work on fedora 8 Solution: http://game-sat.com/~brian/Howtos/AppleMightyMouse.htm Minor patch to evdev in xorg appears to correct the problem
Quoting from the URL you pasted: "A reader (JP Larocque), has noted that the older kernels dont support the horizontal scrolling. He also states that the latest Xorg doesn't require modifications. I know that in late 7.0, or 7.1, evdev was completely re-written. It is much nicer now, and discovers mouse devices based on names instead of device nodes." This is NOTABUG to the best of my knowledge.