Re: Logitech and Microsoft Tilt Wheel Mice. Driver suggestions wanted.

[mike cox]

--- Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:43 pm, Dmitry
> Torokhov wrote:
> > I will try Google for them later. They are pretty
> new, SuSE 8.2 would
> > not have them. 
> 
> Ok, here is what I found:
> 
> The patch for hid-input to convert tilt events to
> HWHEEL:
> 
>
http://www.t12.jp/~ryuta/misclab/debian/release/hidinput-tiltwheel-quirk-for-linux-2.6.7.patch
> 
> I am not sure who the author is as I do not know
> Japanese.
> 
> The patches for XFree86/XOrg allowing to get data
> from /dev/input/eventX
> can be extracted from the floowing:
> 
>
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xorg-x11-6.8.0-patches-0.2.tar.bz2
> 
> Look for patches 9000, 9001 and 9002. As far as I
> can see it will allow using
> wheel to do horizontal scrolling as well.

My warmest thanks to you Dmitry.  I don't know how you
found these tilt wheel drivers, but it has been most
helpful to me and perhaps many others with tilt
wheels.

Once again, thank you very much. :-).  


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