Mouse axis flip with Intrepid

[grahamrjuk]

With Hardy I was able to invert one of my mouse axes and then flip X and Y effectively roatating the mouse by 90 degrees.

With the new input set-up in X with Intrepid I can't yet find a way to do that.

I see info on a number of ways to alter mouse behaviour (HAL, XRandR etc) but the docs I find are not clear enough to suggest how to do the axis flip.

Any help is much appreciated :-)

[judas3000gold]

me too, i'm on a asus eeepc and i can rotate the screen so i can hold it like book, but the touchpad is not rotated, which makes it really difficult to operate

[coCoKNIght]

Subscribing. I want to be able to invert up and down in order to be able to play good old cyberia. Have tried a bit with xorg and hal but to no avail...

Afaik the mouse directions are treated like buttons. If so, remapping the buttons would do what we want. I think the Logitech Marble Mouse USB (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Logitech_Marblemouse_USB) article in the Community Docs is quiet interesting, but although I was able to rearrange the buttons, I wasn't able to change the axes yet...

[diegorodriguezv]

I'm in the same situation.

In Hardy I can invert my Genius Traveler 350 trackball with the following section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:



Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
# Invert Axes
Option "InvX" "1"
Option "InvY" "1"
# Invert wheel-up / wheel-down
Option "ZAxisMapping" "5 4"
# Invert middle and right mouse buttons
# Invert back and forward buttons also
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 3 2 9 8"
EndSection


But it doesn't work in Jaunty or Karmic. I'm sure that the xorg.conf file is being read because it says so in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

My guess would be that the new ultra-fast-auto-configuration-driver-architecture loads another "mouse" driver or it loads it on the fly without passing the arguments or something like that.

Any guess? Some ideas? Pointers? Help?

Thank you.

[diegorodriguezv]

Ok. Just to let you know I now have my axes inverted in Karmic :D. Just had to use the following commands:



xinput set-button-map "KYE Traveler 350" 1 3 2 5 4 6 7 9 8
xinput set-int-prop "KYE Traveler 350" "Evdev Axis Inversion" 8 1 1


They do the same as the xorg.config posted above.