I decided to migrate from the monolithic tree to the modular tree on Gentoo and went to emerge needed packages. After the migration I noticed that my mouse wheel was not working any more. I have a seven button mouse for which I set up mappings in my .xprofile using xmodmap. xmodmap -pp shows the changes correctly but xev still reports the button numbers as unchanged. Then I checked out cvs from yesterday and compiled xmodmap from there and still had the same problem. To reproduce: 1. xmodmap -e "pointer = 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" (3 2 1 for a three button mouse) 2. xev 3. click in the window 4. the button numbers are not reversed
I can confirm this; with the driver set to "evdev", and a Logitech MX1000 mouse, it completely reversed the positions of my right click and middle mouse button, and I can't change them. However, more drastic changes such as a mapping of 2 3 1 instead of 1 2 3 seem to at least make the left button #3, middle button #2 (as it should be), and right button #1. That's the only way I can get it to switch the right button from reporting button 2 to #3, but I'm not about to become left handed. Also, my side buttons fail to be mapped as well. This is on Gentoo.
Just noticed that this looks like a dupe of bug #4212, or at least similar to it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4212 ***
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