Need help with M$ touchmouse

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > > 
> > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is
> > > buggier than a 10 day old carcass.
> > > 
> > > Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not a
> > > long trip. ;)
> > > 
> > > When it works, its 20x more sensitive sideways than vertically, and I
> > > can't get my fingers far enough away from the pad to stop its crazy
> > > behavior, and still rest them in a comfy location for button pushing.
> > > 
> > > Is there anything I can put in an /etc/X11 file that will shut the
> > > side scroll function off, but leave the vertical finger drags
> > > working?
> > 
> > attach an evemu recording and your xorg.log to a bug please. I don't
> > have a recording for this one yet so it's hard to tell.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >    Peter
> 
> First off Peter, evemu is not 'locate'able.  And I'm not sure you want the 
> current Xorg.0.log in your mailbox as its north of 179 megabytes.

you could have restarted X, or started another session for a fresh log file.
or cut down the thousands of lines of errors which is likely what 99% of the
log file are if it grows to that size in a week.

> I even sicc'd synaptic to find it in the ubuntu repo, and came up dry 
> there too.

evemu shows up as second link on google for me:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Evemu/

but tbh, if you're on a 4 year old box you're pretty much on your own,
sorry. there may have been kernel fixes since, there may have been evdev
fixes since, etc.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> This is a 10.04.4 LTS server install with enough kde pulled in to get 
> kmail & friends.
> 
> I can copy/paste the relevant module loading bits. Here if it would help.
> 
> THere is about 160 megabytes of this in the log:
> 
>  (II) LoadModule: "fb"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
> (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
> (**) FBDEV(0): using shadow framebuffer
> (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
> (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so
> (II) Module shadow: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.1.0
>         ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
> (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
> (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
> (==) FBDEV(0): Backing store disabled
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> Which is repeated at least 1000 times, then later after it has found my 
> pcHDTV-3000 card:
> 
> (II) MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (cx88xx): initialized for relative axes.
> (II) config/udev: Adding input device MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (cx88xx) 
> (/dev/input/mouse0)
> (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument
> 
> I'd guess another 165 megabytes of that to the end of the log.  Uptime is 
> a week & small change.
> 
> I didn't even know the tv card had a mouse port?  But I'll be dipped, it 
> actually has a ps2 socket on the back of it!  But I'm not sure I still 
> have one of those critters.
> 
> > > Even that goes away quite frequently, and I have to turn the mouse
> > > over, shut it off for a second or two & turn it back on, at which
> > > point it works fairly well but will eventually become intermittent
> > > in its response for an hour or so before completely dying, the the
> > > screen cursor still follows it well, and the two buttons work well. 
> > > But I've blamed that on a buggy mouse.
> > > 
> > > This is extremely distracting when I am writing code in geany (gedit
> > > does not have a sideways scroll, but it has trashed important source
> > > code file entirly too often, geany never has) because I have to drag
> > > the bar on the bottom back the the left stop in order to see what I
> > > am writing.  I need help since the mouse makers figured out how to
> > > sell the high priced versions by putting the optical eye way back
> > > under the palm of our hands instead of up under your fingers in the
> > > #<$50 models.  So the <$50 mice aren't at all intuitive to use
> > > because you are forced to move the whole arm when using them.
> 
> 
> Thanks Peter.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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