Lion broke scroll wheel Razer DeathAdder

After upgrading to Lion my Razer DeathAdder mouse can't scroll using the mouse wheel. I'm hoping that Razer will release an updated driver, but in the mean time does anyone have any work arounds? Anyone else seeing the same problem? Note: this isn't about the new "backwards" scrolling in Lion. It doesn't scroll at all in any direction on any page or application.
My only work around so far is to set the scroll directions to be Macros, scroll up = Up Arrow, scroll down = Down arrow. It just works ok but it is certainly not ideal. It doesn't work right in a good many scenarios.

I forgot to reply to this thread; I figured out what my problem was. In the Driver Application, beneath the button selection, there's an Advanced Mousewheel Options which I hadn't noticed and assumed was just a graphic. The scroll wheel was set by default to left click when I scrolled up, and right click when I scrolled down.
In response to HimynameisJoe, in case you misunderstand how it works, here is what you do to program the buttons:
1. Select the button from the main window area (1 -- 5)
2. A dropdown menu appears on that button's selection area.
3. Select whatever setting as which you want it to operate, for example, Primary Click, Secondary Click, Pass-through, Advanced Buttons, Button Off.
4. If you want to use the 3rd, 4th and 5th as extra buttons for different apps, for example, for FPS games or WoW, then select Pass-through. This worked for me easily with Snow Leopard, however, I've yet to have it work in Lion.
5. If you want to use a button for a single key such as F5 or the Fn key, or you want to set a key as a macro, select Advanced Functions. This will open the pane which I suspect you're having trouble accessing.
For anyone who's having trouble with the new reversed scrolling and has both a mouse and a trackpad, (such as use of a MacBook) then I have worked out a nice compromise:
1. Enable the reversed scrolling which allows the iOS-like trackpad scrolling which will make the trackpad really intuitive to use.
2. Go to the Driver settings for the Deathadder and change the Advanced Mousewheel Options. Change the the upward scroll motion to Scroll Down and the downward scroll option to Scroll Up.

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I mean it. Apple makes major changes in the way things have worked for years, then makes that change the default, causing 1m people to struggle. Bad Bad App le.
There other changes like this in Lion as well, which are arbitrary and are "App le" policy now, which even App le themselves do not follow! (e.g. Cmd-Delete for "Don't Save" in a few App le applications, where 900 million people have used Cmd-<first letter of button> already, for years)
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Many of us cannot buy new equipment when arbitrary changes are made, and "get a new driver" is a slap in the face, especially when such changes as Reversing scroll for many-millions could easily be done by making the "new way" an Option, not a default.
Don't get me wrong, Mac and iPhone etc are way ahead of MS and all, but the rabid arrogance inside App le is App aulling.

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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
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InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
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Option "Xinerama" "off"
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InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
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Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbVariant" "basic,extended"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Name" "Razer DeathAdder"
Option "corepointer"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
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Option "ButtonsMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
Option "Resolution" "900"
Option "SampleRate" "1000"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
Option "VideoOverlay" "off"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
Option "Textured2D" "on"
Option "TexturedXrender" "off"
Option "UseFastTLS" "1"
Option "BackingStore" "on"
Option "mtrr" "on"
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
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Section "DRI"
Group "Video"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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X -config /root/X11/xorg.conf
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Then i tried
Cat /dev/input/mice
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Sorry if this in the wrong section, or the problem itself is dumb, but i tried everything belive me. If someone could help, i would apreciate. Btw, not an english person, i have a very bad english indeed lol
Tks in advance
Last edited by Camelon (2008-07-31 20:58:16)

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#===============================
#ecra, output devices
#===============================
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Default Monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
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Section "Device"
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Monitor "Default Monitor"
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Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
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Section "Extensions"
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EndSection
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#===============================
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Rato"
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Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "pad"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
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EndSection
#=====================
#the server layout
#=====================
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Ecra"
InputDevice "Teclado" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Rato" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad"
EndSection
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/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:
KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="056a", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom"
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