Xorg 6.9.0 Odd Mouse Wheel Behavior

[Matthias Hopf]

On Mar 14, 06 11:49:58 -0600, Mark Kane wrote:
> After updating to 6.9.0, whenever I move the wheel up it does scroll up 
> like it's supposed to, however it also acts like a left mouse button is 
> being pressed at the same time. It's somewhat hard to explain but here 
> is an example:

I haven't heard of that particular behavior...

> I'm going through my inbox in Thunderbird and I start scrolling up using 
> the wheel to see messages. In addition to going up the list, it's also 
> selecting all the emails that my mouse pointer happens to touch when I 
> move the wheel up.

Can you record the events that are created with a) xev and b) evtest?

> This problem only has started since upgrading to Xorg 6.9.0 via 
> portupgrade on FreeBSD. Here is the mouse portion of my xorg.conf that 
> has worked for months up until the upgrade:

Can you test the mouse driver of 7.1RC2 (or wait, if you can, for 7.1)?
It has quite a number of issues fixed.

Matthias

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