Mouse buttons/scroll directions swapped with recent Xorg

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:48:03PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently (beginning of February), I performed the following upgrades:
> 
> xf86-input-evdev (2.6.0-4 -> 2.6.99.901-1)
> xf86-input-synaptics (1.5.0-1 -> 1.5.99-0.1)
> xorg-server (1.11.4-1 -> 1.11.99.903-1)
> xorg-xinput (1.5.3-2 -> 1.5.99.1-1)
> (Some of these packages have since been updated to their latest releases
> or newer snapshots, but the problems I describe below remain the same.)
> 
> Since then, I have two problems:
> 
> 1) On my ALPS touchpad, the circular scroll direction has been reversed:
> Scrolling left is now button 5, scrolling right is button 4. (The right
> edge of the touchpad still scrolls correctly, up is button 4, down is
> button 5.)

definitely a regression, patch available here
http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/9512/

> 2) On my Logitech M555b mouse, buttons 6 and 7 have been swapped.

Physical buttons or logical (scroll) buttons? If the former, please file a
bug against evtest and attach a utouch-evemu recording of the button events.  
see http://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/evemu/

Cheers,
  Peter