D'oh! Thanks to your question (and knowing that it worked for a similar system), while simplifying my config file in order to post, I tracked down exactly what the problem was. Now I'm a little embarassed that I'd let this bother me for so long!
In the InputDevice section for "synaptics", this line was responsible: Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.001" I can't say whether this was related to the upgrade to xorg or to a new version of the synaptics driver or what, but somewhere the behaviour changed. The driver's changelog doesn't document this, but everything seems to be working when I just remove the line. -- Ben Pearre http://hebb.mit.edu/~ben PGP: CFDA6CDA Free music at http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic Don't let Bush read your email! http://www.gnupg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]