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FS#20432 - [xf86-input-evdev] and A4Tech mouse causes wrong mouse button behaviour

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bartek Iwaniec (hash) - Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 19:39 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 07 March 2011, 19:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
With xf86-input-evdev in version 2.4.0-1, there is a bug with A4Tech mouses which casues mouse button click to send three xevents for each click:
buttonpress motionnotify buttonrelease. This causes problems in e.g. KDE list sorting and random drag&drop triggering.This issue is now fixed with the following patch: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=37773

and here is link to bugreport on freedesktop:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24737

It would be nice if this patch could be applied to Arch's evdev package before it gets applied by upstream.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 2.4.0-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Monday, 07 March 2011, 19:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed upstream
Comment by Vladimir (Psycho_zs) - Thursday, 26 August 2010, 11:17 GMT
with evdev 2.4.0-2 long forgotten a4 mouse glitch returned. It is described in this old fixed ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/441408
Seems to be related to motionnotify event.
Comment by Vladimir (Psycho_zs) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 16:21 GMT
The bug is present in xf86-input-evdev 2.5.0-1!
pointer still jumps to bottom-right corner on any click in SDL game

can't even workaround with SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
mouse does not jump, but is getting boxed inside invisible boundaries.
Comment by Vladimir (Psycho_zs) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 16:31 GMT
can not even downgrade to 2.4.0-1: it totally disables any input in new X
Comment by Vladimir (Psycho_zs) - Sunday, 24 October 2010, 13:14 GMT
found workaround in wiki.

I've added this to my tweaks file in xorg.conf.d:

Section "Module"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
EndSection

But everything was fine without it before evdev 2.4.0-2

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