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cebru

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 39

Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

Hello there.

This really strange thing is happening, and I cannot figure out why.

After I have installed Arch, as soon as I reboot the computer for the first time emulation of three mouse buttons suddenly become enabled. For those that don't know what that is, it makes and right and left mouse click at the same time become a middle click.

The issue only happens after a reboot and then continues to stick. I tried following the MX1000 wiki entry (that is my mouse) but to no avail. It is mind numbingly annoying and I cincerely hope someone can guide me in the right direction.

I tried using evdev as the mouse driver and creating an .fdi file and setting Emulate3Buttons to "no" (and "false", but didn't work either). Didn't help.

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

From googling:

Setting AutoAddDevices to false in xorg.conf is required in order to disable
Emulate3Buttons

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs … 27836.html

cebru

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 39

Re: Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

I added a :

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

Both my mouse and keyboard didn't work afterwards.

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

I added a :

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

Both my mouse and keyboard didn't work afterwards.

well, this means that your devices are not being configured by hal anymore, you need to set them up in xorg.conf

cebru

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 39

Re: Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

http://pastebin.com/f326b1f41

This is my current xorg.conf. That contains a mouse entry.

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

http://pastebin.com/f326b1f41

This is my current xorg.conf. That contains a mouse entry.

Ahh ok.
I ran into the exact same prob on my last install.
Try removing the AutoAddDevices entry, save and reboot.

Note: I've also not been able to get the ctrl/alt/backspace to not work irregardless of dontzap being added or not to xorg.conf.
If you don't mind would you let me know if that does or does not work for you as well AFTER we try and fix your mouse prob? Thx

cebru

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Registered: 2009-06-17

Posts: 39

Re: Disabling Emulate3Buttons. Tried everything.

I tried adding the DontZap and setting it to "false". Doesn't work at all.

From googling and trying out other distributions I am pretty confident that this is a bug with the evdev driver.