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Hello,

> I have an iBook G4 of early 2004, running -current, but I haven't yet
> bothered to update X beyond 4.4.0.  I tried changing the keyboard
> driver from "keyboard" to "kbd", which gave positive results (more
> keys defined, less need for xmodmap), but also made the trackpad
> behave strangely.  Whenever I put my finger on it, it reports button
> 179 being pressed:
>=20
> ButtonRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
>     root 0x38, subw 0x0, time 449443, (297,594), root:(298,595),
>     state 0x0, button 179, same_screen YES
>=20
> ButtonPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
>     root 0x38, subw 0x0, time 449441, (297,594), root:(298,595),
>     state 0x0, button 179, same_screen YES
>=20
> ButtonRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
>     root 0x38, subw 0x0, time 449443, (297,594), root:(298,595),
>     state 0x0, button 179, same_screen YES

This is odd, neither kbd nor keyboard should have anything to do with
the trackpad.

> This makes Mozilla believe that I'm holding a mouse button down all
> the time, which is rather annoying.
>=20
> Has anyone else seen this?  What might be the cause (and the fix)?
> Should I just upgrade X and see what happens?

Worth a try - I'm running -current with XFree86 4.5 on my iBook G4
for quite some time now and never had anything like this.=20

have fun
Michael

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