[ale] SuSe and Scrollwheel

[Michael D. Hirsch]

Thanks, Dow.

It looks like adding this line to my mouse config in XF86Config might be 
interesting:
         Option          "Buttons"               "6"
I'll try it and see what happens.  It'll be a little while cause I'm 209 in 
line for the Lindows download and it's dropping somewhat slowly.  :-)

Michael

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 10:52 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> The problem at this point with the 7 buttons is that the
> XFree mouse driver doesn't handle that many buttons
> correctly by default and is just assigning the signal to the
> same event.  I worked on my wife's MS Optical Trackball
> which has 5 buttons and a scroll wheel for 7 total buttons
> in XFree's viewpoint.  I played with arranging the buttons
> using xmodmap in a bunch of different ways and also tried
> both mouse drivers that would see the trackball.  Only the
> more advanced driver and one combination of buttons made the
> trackball useful.  I have a left mouse button for selection
> ops.  A middle button for pasting on the scroll wheel.  A
> button for right click type events such as displaying a
> menu.  Two further right buttons, one that acts like the
> right button and one that is useless by not being assigned.
>   The scroll wheel works as buttons 4 and 5 due to the
> reassignment of buttons to events the driver understands.
> Try rearranging and getting button event 6 and 7 mapped to
> your physical buttons.  Start thinking of XFree button
> events getting mapped to physical buttons on the mouse.  So,
> you really need to know what the physical button numerical
> order is for your mouse.  You discover that by playing with
> xmodmap to map out which button is physically, or
> "electronically" identified as 1, 2, or so on.  Right now
> you have 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, and so on.  The best examples are on
> the XFree site under mouse configuration examples for the
> version of XFree that your using.  I'd go there and study
> the examples to get button events 6 and 7 placed correctly.
>
> I had a GE 9 event optical mouse with dual scroll wheels.
> Depending on how I reassigned the buttons, I could get
> reasonable functionality such as left, right, middle, and
> single scroll wheel functions.  The second scroll wheel
> events just weren't supported under XFree correctly at the
> time I was working on this, so that scroll wheel would
> either duplicate the first one or act weird depending on the
> mapping.  That would have been XFree 4.0 and the IMP/S 2
> driver at least under SuSE 8.1. The Windows device specific
> driver understands and provides more functionality for the
> device than the XFree generic mouse drivers such as XY
> scrolling.  This is an area that needs work.
> Dow
>
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:41 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >>You can remap the mouse keys via a small script when you log
> >>in.  Here is an example to get a Microsoft 5 button
> >>trackball to work and set my dpms setting at the same time
> >>when I would log into KDE.
> >>
> >>#!/bin/sh
> >>xset dpms 900 1000 1100
> >>xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 7 3 2 4 5"
> >>exit
> >
> > Cool.  I didn't know about the pointer command in xmodmap.  Can I use
> > this on my 7 button mouse?  I just realized that my USB Microsoft
> > Intellimouse has two buttons I never use.  It has the standard 5 buttons
> > (Left, Right, middle, scrull up, scroll down) but there are two more
> > buttons under my thumb.  It there a way to map them?
> >
> > I've run xev to watch the X events, and I can't tell them apart:
> > Real button 3:
> > ButtonPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x8600001,
> >     root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 1901077568, (54,174), root:(58,505),
> >     state 0x10, button 3, same_screen YES
> >
> > ButtonRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x8600001,
> >     root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 1901077768, (54,174), root:(58,505),
> >     state 0x410, button 3, same_screen YES
> >
> > Button 6:
> > ButtonPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x8600001,
> >     root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 1901083912, (54,174), root:(58,505),
> >     state 0x10, button 3, same_screen YES
> >
> > ButtonRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x8600001,
> >     root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 1901084088, (54,174), root:(58,505),
> >     state 0x410, button 3, same_screen YES
> >
> > It there a way to do anything with these buttons?
> >
> > Michael
> >
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