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New Archlinux x86_64 Install + Hal/Xorg Problems

August 7th, 2009 kenneth No comments

So on my new machine that I built I have installed Windows Vista (soon to be windows 7 later tonight) and Archlinux. Everything is great, the machine is churning along. I’ve currently started to test the Quakelive linux plugin as I am part of the testing team now. Everything works great except Emulate3Buttons. I use mouse1 to fire the weapon and mouse2 to jump. In order to rocket jump I need to press these two buttons almost simultaneously and when they are both pressed it registers as mouse3 which is the same as middle click. Mouse3 or middle click is set to use item and this does not play well when trying to rocket jump. I’ve added the proper option to Xorg.conf and it works sometimes after a bit and then other times it does not. I beleive the culprit to be Hal since most settings have to be set in the *.fdi files. More to come on this. I will add my findings later tonight or this weekend.

Links added for references:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/config/x11-input.fdi
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_Polling_Rate
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=294354

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