Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:31:06 -0500 From: George Fazio <gfazio@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade xorg-* -> mouse-wheel stops working under X Message-ID: <3ed41cef0602021731j54b1cacco14ac01409c735f1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bdf25fde0602021201y5eb62b90j2e25d548c76df46c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060127130817.GA4157@aurora.oekb.co.at> <3ed41cef0601270711k40730c94ke55c3c1d27391fec@mail.gmail.com> <20060202110652.GA82026@aurora.oekb.co.at> <43E1EB02.9050106@netfence.it> <cb5206420602020349x2672af5dsbca4ea75e38b1764@mail.gmail.com> <bdf25fde0602021201y5eb62b90j2e25d548c76df46c@mail.gmail.com>
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A friend of mine pointed me to this message from one of the Xorg lists. I
have not yet had time to test it, and it will probably be a couple days
before I do. Hope this helps everyone out. -George
From: xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org
[mailto:xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Hopf
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:19 AM
To: Discuss issues related to the xorg tree
Subject: Re: ms intellimouse not working right
On Feb 01, 06 11:16:06 -0600, Jason Dravet wrote:
> I am using rawhide (fedora core development). They just updated to xorg =
7
> final and I was hoping that my mouse problem would be fixed, but it
wasn't.
> I have a 5 button + scrollwheel mouse (MS intellimouse explorer). I want
> to use the side buttons. In xorg 6.8 it worked great, but in 7 it does
not
> work. Here is the mouse part of my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Buttons" "7"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> EndSection
>
> I also have this file called mouse.sh in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
> #!/bin/sh
> # /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse
> # Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse
> xmodmap -e "pointer =3D 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
No longer required, actually harmfull now.
man mouse (default was wrong, have commited that now):
Option "ButtonMapping" "N1 N2 [...]"
Specifies how physical mouse buttons are mapped to logical
but-
tons. Physcial button 1 is mapped to logical button N1,
physi-
cal button 2 to N2, and so forth. This enables the use of
phys-
ical buttons that are obscured by
ZAxisMapping.
Default: "1 2 3 8 9 10 ...".
So if you want to get buttons events 6 and 7 with physical buttons 4 and 5
you want
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
But as mice with two wheels are getting more available now, applications
might be configured to use buttons 6 and 7 for horizontal scrolling
soon. You might want to use the default configuration and configure
applications to use buttons 8 and 9 for button actions.
Though it is largely undecided right now whether the default like it is
now is a good idea, or whether other buttons should be reserved for the
secondary wheel.
> If I run mouse.sh I get this:
> xmodmap: commandline:1: bad number of buttons, must have 11 instead of =
7
> xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
This is because due to default ButtonMapping you get 4 more buttons than
configured. But you don't want to use xmodmap any more.
> I was run xorg7 rc something and there was a discussion about the number
of
> buttons being hard coded or something like that the point is this is/was =
a
> known problem. I can't find the thread now that I need it.
No. Different thing.
Matthias
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