[LAU] Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

[Robin Gareus]

On 05/31/2011 03:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> Xorg -configure does generate a xorg.conf that break the mouse wheel.
> I now try to set up xorg.conf for the monitor and for a while I'll
> ignore hat the wheel doesn't work.

These days it is very unusual to edit xorg.conf manually. HAL does most
of the input-device setup.

Unless you've already disable HAL in xorg.conf - see
http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/341.html - you should configure HAL
instead of xorg.

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/*.fdi
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Buttons" type="string">5</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons"
type="string">on</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">on</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton"
type="string">2</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
    </match>
  </device>