Copy words still broken-Solved!

[Karl Larsen]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 15Nov2007 16:08, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Nataraj wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I would start by running the xev program and put the mouse in the black
>>>> box and see if you are generating a button 2 press and release by
>>>> pressing both the left and right button.  Also check the left and right
>>>> button seperately.
>>>>         
> [...]
>   
>>>> If you are not generating the button2 press, I would look to see if you
>>>> have the "Emulate3buttons" option for your mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>>>> My mouse section looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>>>         Driver      "mouse"
>>>>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>>>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>>>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>>>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>         
> [...]
>   
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Hi and thank you. I found that the darn thing had "no" for emulate. I 
>>> fixed that. How it got to be no I have no idea....
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>       
>> Boy what a great help! I did the obvious you suggested and rebooted and now 
>> the copy words is working just as it used to. How it got changed to no 
>> emulate is a mystery.
>>     
>
> If you were fiddling with your video driver setups (and thus the xorg.conf)
> earlier, which I think you were, some automatic tool may have editing this
> setting for you (or a cut/paste from an example xorg.conf might also have
> managed it). Just possibilities.
>   
I think it was anaconda which by error saw my 2 button track ball as 
being 3 buttons. So it wrote xorg.config wrong. I need to fix my other 
two fedora systems and then will be happy again with my new little computer.



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