[ltp] Mouse Wheel Emulation

[Thomas Kahle]

Michael Gaber wrote:
> 
> 
> Thomas Kahle schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> first you should check if evdev somehow grabs the mouse and unmerge 
>>> it, if it does.
>>
>> In fact, this is the case. On the other hand i don't want to unmerge 
>> it, since I use it for my keyboard and now every of the little special 
>> keys works perfectly.
> 
> what "little special keys" ? if you mean the audio-buttons on the lower 
> right: wey work well with x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard and my xorg.conf.
> 
> so i killed evdev and use -keyboard and -mouse and they work exactly the 
> way I'd like them to

In particular the volume keys and and the forward backward keys which I 
use systemwide for walking through tabs, and moving around in "okular".

Actually I think the keyboard driver is deprecated, but I must admid, 
there are problems with evdev.
The other thing is, that I use autodetection of input devices through 
hal (which was introduced in xorg-server 1.4.0.90) and somehow I make 
mistakes with the hal policy files i think. Unfortunately i cannot find 
any documentation on how to configure the mouse with hal.
On the other hand i cannot accept the "disable hal in xorg solutions" 
presented everywhere. This should not be the way.

Do you use hal in xorg ? If so, do you have fdi files for the mouse ?

Thanks already
Thomas

> 
>>
>> It's not an xorg.conf thing, actually the x-server 1.4.0.90 ignores 
>> xorg.conf and relies on hal to be informed about the devices...
>>
>> So, I know how to configure hal, the remaining question is, whether it 
>> is possible to get scrolling with evdev driver, or not...
>>
>> thanks
>> Thomas
>>
>>> then you could check my yorg.conf, which enables scrolling with the 
>>> middle button in 4 directions
>>>
>>> Thomas Kahle schrieb:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i have a Thinkpad X61s without Touchpad, did anyone here succeed in
>>>> enabling mouse wheel emulation on this or a similar machine ?
>>>>
>>>> I use xorg 1.4.0.90 and input-mouse 1.2.3 on gentoo.
>>>> The relevant part of xorg.conf looks like:
>>>>
>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>> ~        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>>> ~        Driver      "mouse"
>>>> ~        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>>>> ~        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>>> ~        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>>>> ~        Option      "EmulateWheel"        "on"
>>>> ~        Option      "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
>>>> ~        Option      "EmulateWheelButton"  "2"
>>>> ~        Option      "YAxisMapping"        "4 5"
>>>> ~        Option      "XAxisMapping"        "6 7"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> Although I experimented a lot already with this (changing the mapping
>>>> buttons and so on...) it just shows no effect. Pasting with middle
>>>> button works, scroll does not.
>>>>
>>>> ~From the logs i can tell that the option is read and recongnized :
>>>>
>>>>  ...
>>>> (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
>>>> (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
>>>> (**) Option "CorePointer"
>>>> (**) Mouse0: always reports core events
>>>> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>>> (==) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
>>>> (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>>>> (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7
>>>> (**) Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
>>>> (**) Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
>>>> (**) Option "EmulateWheelTimeout" "200"
>>>> (**) Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
>>>> (**) Mouse0: XAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7
>>>> (**) Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>>> (**) Mouse0: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
>>>> (**) Mouse0: EmulateWheel, EmulateWheelButton: 2, EmulateWheelInertia:
>>>> 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
>>>> (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11
>>>> (**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
>>>>  ...
>>>>
>>>> Any Ideas ?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Thomas
>>
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