Ubuntu
xorg package

middle button don't work anymore

Bug #147799 reported by Laurent
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Bug Description

Hi,

My middle button simply stopped working one or two weeks ago. When clicking on it, nothing happens. But using the scroll wheel is just fine.
I used xev to detect if any events are generated but that's not the case.

The only workaround I found is to unplug and plug again the mouse: by doing this I can use again the middle button.

Here are some details on my configuration

$ uname -a
Linux gemini 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 20:03:18 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c512 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 174f:a311
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file as an attachment to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

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Laurent (laurent-goujon) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I believe you want to remove the following line:

    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"

from your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. After doing that you will need to restart X by either rebooting your system or logging out of your session and then pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace". Please let us know how that works out for you. Thanks again.

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Laurent (laurent-goujon) wrote :

I didn't touch the xorg.conf but since today problem disappeared. So best is perhaps to close this bug since I can't reproduce the bad behaviour. If problem reappears, I will reopen this bug

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

As there is no definitive indication as to how this was fixed I am going to mark the bug as Invalid. However, if this crops up again please change the bug's status back to New. Thanks again!

Changed in xorg:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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