Strange bug with mouse wheel scrolling

Matthias Hopf mhopf at suse.de
Tue Apr 11 10:33:26 PDT 2006


On Mar 31, 06 00:00:55 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> I have a bug here but I'm not sure if it's an X bug or a Linux kernel bug or
> perhaps my mouse having some weird hardware failure, though it's never done it
> before. 
> 
> Whenever I scroll (vertically) by quickly spinning the mouse wheel it inserts
> the occasional horizontal scroll. Checking with xev it does in fact send the
> occasional "button 7" event:

See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144682

I didn't have time so far to investigate this further, but your input
about your mouse model could help here.

CU

Matthias

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