Stop Magic Mouse from changing numerical entries

How do I stop my Magic Mouse from changing numerical entries in apps on my Mac Pro? When I'm using a program such as Adobe Illustrator, if I click on an entry field, say the dimensions of a rectangle, and enter the values in on my keyboard, if I happen to slightly drag my finger on the mouse when I grab it again, the numerical entries in the dialog box I was last typing in will change due to the scrolling feature of the Magic Mouse. How do I stop this from happening?

Well, I did manage to write a udev rule that assigned the mouse to event9, but for some odd reason it didn't work with evdev. The man page for evdev says that evdev only uses event*, but I don't understand why event9 doesn't work then. But the phys-thing worked. My mouse-section in xorg.conf now looks like
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Protocol" "evdev"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option "Phys" "usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input0"
Option "Buttons" "8"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 7 8"
EndSection
At a first glance this seems to work as I want. However, if I understand correctly, the phys is tied to a specific usb port? Which means that it will change if I plug the mouse into another port. But since I rarely unplug the mouse anyway, this is a much better solution than having to change xorg.conf all the time.
Last edited by perost (2007-06-29 08:35:36)

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