Mouse Scroll Wheel not working in spice vm guests

[Bastian]

Im runnning Precise in various qemu-kvm virtual machines with Spice.

The ScrollWheel stops working in the virtual machine as soon the spice-vdagent gets started.
After killing the spice-vdagent process the Scroll Wheel works again.
Seems to be an evdev Bug, see solved Fedora Bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=805902

Infos:

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

xserver-xorg-input-evdev:
  Installiert: 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
  Kandidat: 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

spice-vdagent:
  Installiert: (keine)
  Kandidat: 0.8.1-1
  Versionstabelle:
     0.8.1-1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages

See also attached Xorg.0.log

[Bastian (m11g5w-3-5lmmq9)]

I think I found the solution by applying these patches

0001-Allow-relative-scroll-valuators-on-absolute-devices.patch
0001-Fix-inverted-horizontal-scroll-46205.patch

from the Fedora Package http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=3034113 seems to fix the problem.
Someone needs to apply these patches on xserver-xorg-input-evdev ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

The redhat patches do not work for me athough they are supposed to address exactly this problem.

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
DistUpgraded: 2012-08-30 11:28:54,407 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: precise
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Bochs Bochs
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2qemu-scroll1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.0-030600rc3-generic root=UUID=abc94f37-9b02-4b70-9344-2abbf3a4728e ro quiet splash
Tags: precise running-unity ubuntu referred-by-support
Uname: Linux 3.6.0-030600rc3-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-30 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 01/01/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Bochs
dmi.bios.version: Bochs
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Bochs
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnBochs:bvrBochs:bd01/01/2007:svnBochs:pnBochs:pvr:cvnBochs:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Bochs
dmi.sys.vendor: Bochs
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.3+8.0.2-0ubuntu3.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.3+8.0.2-0ubuntu3.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2qemu-scroll1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

They do in fact work but they conflict with the existing ubuntu patches and dpkg-buildpackage somehow 'solved' the conflict by not applying the patches.

[mard0 (martijn-doornbusch-l)]

This is also the problem in 13.04

[Harry Coin (hcoin)]

I found that doing:

mkdir ~/shouldhavebeendoneatcanonicalalongtimeago
cd ~/shouldhavebeendoneatcanonicalalongtimeago
apt-get source xserver-xorg-input-evdev
apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-evdev
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev/log/
download and unpack the tar at [head], cp -r (overwrite) the contents of the xserver-xorg with the newer stuff
cd xserver-xorg...
rm debian/patches/*
debchange -n (put in a remark as to the date of the fix)
dpkg-buildpackage -b
in the vm, install the result (dpkg -i ../(latest deb there).deb

and ... scrolling once again works in vms where it was broken before.
I've tried to attach the .deb for amd_64 with this post.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Bastian, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-evdev REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

seems upstream is still broken and ubuntu has not patched this

[Harry Coin (hcoin)]

Still broken in saucy.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Michal Suchanek / Harry Coin, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg

Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information.

For more on this, please see the official Ubuntu documentation:
Ubuntu X.Org Team, Ubuntu Bug Control, and Ubuntu Bug Squad: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices#X.2BAC8-Reporting.Focus_on_One_Issue
Ubuntu Community: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette

When opening up the new report, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

Please note, not filing a new report will delay your problem being addressed as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Harry Coin (hcoin)]

On 04/02/2014 10:36 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Michal Suchanek / Harry Coin, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal:
> ubuntu-bug xorg
>
> Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes
> button for attaching additional debugging information.
>
> For more on this, please see the official Ubuntu documentation:
> Ubuntu X.Org Team, Ubuntu Bug Control, and Ubuntu Bug Squad: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices#X.2BAC8-Reporting.Focus_on_One_Issue
> Ubuntu Community: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
>
> When opening up the new report, please feel free to subscribe me to it.
>
> Please note, not filing a new report will delay your problem being
> addressed as quickly as possible.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>

I tried it out with trusty beta 2 with exactly the same results as saucy
-- no scroll wheel operation.

However, I have found a major clue.

do:

service spice-vdagent stop

and the scroll wheel works (but cuttting and pasting and related is
broken).

and after

service spice-vdagent start

the scroll wheel stops again, but cutting and pasting works.

There is some sort of fight between spice-vdagent and the evdev xorg driver.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]