Re: 2.6.5 : problem with MS Intellimouse Explorer buttons when using X

[Vitez Gabor]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:16:33PM +0300, Kim Holviala wrote:
> 2.4 and 2.6 handle mouse differently; 2.4 has /dev/psaux which is just a 
> direct channel into the port while 2.6 inteprets all mouse stuff and 
> regenerates a virtual /dev/psaux.

Thanks, I did not know it.
 
> Try modprobing the even device (modprobe evdev) to get /dev/input/event?. Then 
> run hexdump -C /dev/input/event1 (or whatever even device represents your 
> mouse) to see what REALLY happens in the kernel. Don't worry about the first 
> 8 octets, the stuff you want is in the last 8. Might be a good idea to switch 
> to a console so that extra mouse clicks won't do any strange things.

When looking for the evdev modul, I found the event debug (evbug) modul, so I 
used that one instead. It writes event debug info to the kernel log. I loaded 
it, and started pressing the mouse buttons, one after another.

Everything looks OK: there are no superfluous mouse events. This is the
output I got:

Apr 12 11:46:28 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 272, Value: 1
Apr 12 11:46:28 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:28 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 272, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:28 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:29 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 273, Value: 1
Apr 12 11:46:29 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:30 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 273, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:30 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:32 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 274, Value: 1
Apr 12 11:46:32 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:32 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 274, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:32 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:33 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 276, Value: 1
Apr 12 11:46:33 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:34 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 276, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:34 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:35 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 275, Value: 1
Apr 12 11:46:35 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:36 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 1, Code: 275, Value: 0
Apr 12 11:46:36 tonhal kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0

So the mouse event regeneration in the kernel seems to be buggy.

> >         Option          "Buttons"               "7"
> >         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "6 7"
> 
> I use an Explorer at work, don't have the Buttons directive at all and my 
> ZAxMap is "4 5". That way everything works, but the side buttons are missing. 
> That's with 2.6.5 and Gentoo.

Yes. In order to use the mouse buttons on the side, one has to use the
configuration above. Obviously the Z axis is mapped to the wrong buttons 
(and button 4 and 5 are the side buttons..) so buttons should be swapped 
in X with the   xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"   command.


	Gabor
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