[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why is the middle mouse button not working in OI 148?

[ken mays]

You can set the PS/2 'IntelliMouse' option.
~ Ken Mays

--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why is the middle mouse button not working in OI 148?
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 7:53 PM
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 01:00, Gary
> Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca>
> wrote:
> > I have a Sun Type 6 USB 3-button mouse connected to an
> x86 box running
> > OI 148.  After the upgrade from Opensolaris 134, the
> middle mouse
> > button stopped working for pasting.  It acts the same
> as the right
> > button now.  I added an entry for this mouse to the
> OI HCL, but it was
> > removed.  Shouldn't the HCL list devices that don't
> work?
> >
> > Does anyone know how to fix this problem?  There's
> not much in the
> > Xorg log regarding the mouse:
> >
> >    $ grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >    (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse disabled
> >    (II) config/hal: Adding input device mouse
> >    (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> >    (II) Loading
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/amd64/mouse_drv.so
> >    (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> >    (**) mouse: Protocol: VUID
> >    (**) mouse: always reports core events
> >    (II) mouse: Setting Buttons option to "3"
> >    (==) mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
> >    (**) mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
> >    (**) mouse: Buttons: 9
> >    (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "mouse"
> (type: MOUSE)
> >    (**) mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme
> 1
> >    (**) mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
> >    (WW) mouse: couldn't get wheel state
> >
> > As far as I know, there's no Xorg.conf file.  It's
> certainly not in
> > the locations given by the man page, although I
> suspect those are all
> > incorrect.
> 
> suggestions/guesses (since a) I'm typing this at a laptop
> sans mouse
> b) mouse works fine on my WS with OI 148, guess is all I
> can do):
> 
> - I would look more closely into the (WW) you show last
> - use xev to find out what X thinks about your mouse
> button
> - is someone/thing calling xmodmap during your session
> startup?
> 
> 
> HTH
> -- 
> regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
> Michael Schuster
> 
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