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Old 02-02-2007, 10:54 AM   #1
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emerged xfce, beryl, and XGL... mouse buttons no longer work


Hey everyone,

I followed the gentoo-wiki guide for running xfce, beryl, and XGL ... and after I did, and I boot in to FVWM with startx, my mouse buttons no longer work properly. I have an MX510 so I went to the gentoo-wiki and it told me to run:
Code:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32"
So i had put that in .xinitrc and all was going fine until I emerged all of these packages.

Now I get:
Code:
gnychis@monster ~ $ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32"
Warning: Only changing the first 32 of 10 buttons.
This swaps my right button and middle button, and my side buttons no longer work.

any ideas?

Thanks!
George
 
Old 02-02-2007, 10:57 AM   #2
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this could be part of the problem, when starting X:
Code:
(EE) evdev brain: Unable to initialize inotify, using fallback. (errno: 38)
(EE) evdev brain: Unable to initialize inotify, using fallback. (errno: 38)
(EE) evdev brain: Unable to NONBLOCK inotify, using fallback. (errno: 9)
I think gentoo-wiki said to upgrade evdev, which may have caused this
 
Old 02-02-2007, 05:13 PM   #3
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ok so i managed to get rid of those errors by building in inotify into the kernel... however the mouse problem did not go away

any ideas? I checked the beryl/xgl wiki and i don't see anything that would have affected this... it looks like it never had to update evdev or anything
 
Old 02-02-2007, 05:17 PM   #4
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okay after talking to myself for a little bit... i found it in the wiki

xorg must have updated itself to 7.1 and i must not have noticed...

the buttons must be remapped according to the wiki:
Code:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"
 
  


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