[Xorg] Xorg mouse DDX enhancements

[Egbert Eich]

Alan, 

I also have plans to work on the mouse support.
There are several generic functionalities inside the
mouse driver which should be handled outside the
mouse hw driver as they may be useful for other input
devices which provide mouse functionalities.
Furthermore we may need a new mouse driver soon
which can take advantage of the new Linux input
device layer. So maybe this is the time I should
revisit the issue.

Egbert.


Alan Coopersmith writes:
 > I've been working on some enhancements to the Xorg mouse DDX for
 > Solaris, and they seem to be working fine here - but since I've
 > never worked in the XFree86 DDX code before (though I've been working
 > on the Xsun input device DDX'es for several years), I'd appreciate some
 > review by someone who has to make sure I'm not making any obvious
 > mistakes in the configuration and other code.  (I'm also waiting until
 > we get the branches straightened out next week before committing, but the
 > patch is in the bugzilla attachments to bug 434 now.)
 > 
 > Also, while working on this I started wondering why the default ZAxisMapping
 > seems to be to discard the wheel events - wouldn't a default of "4 5" be much more
 > sensible, especially with the move to try to autoconfigure as much as possible?
 > I'm sure it wouldn't be correct for everyone, but it seems like it would be
 > correct for a much larger set of users than the current default.  Any thoughts?
 > 
 > 	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
 > 	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
 > 
 > -------- Original Message --------
 > Subject: [Bug 434] New: Solaris mouse enhancements
 > Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:54:23 -0700
 > From: bugzilla-daemon at pdx.freedesktop.org
 > To: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
 > 
 > http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=434
 > 
 >             Summary: Solaris mouse enhancements
 >             Product: xorg
 >             Version: CVS_head
 >            Platform: PC
 >          OS/Version: Solaris
 >              Status: NEW
 >            Severity: enhancement
 >            Priority: P3
 >           Component: Input/Mouse
 >          AssignedTo: alan.coopersmith at sun.com
 >          ReportedBy: alan.coopersmith at sun.com
 > 
 > 
 > The following patch makes several enhancements to the Solaris mouse support:
 >   - Autoprobe support for USB mice using the Solaris USB/VUID driver on /dev/mouse
 >      & PS/2 mice on /dev/kdmouse
 >   - Support for wheel events on USB mice on Solaris releases that support them
 >      in the USB/VUID mouse driver
 >   - The ability to push a SysV streams module onto the device so that additional
 >      USB mice can be used by specifying options such as:
 >          Option      "Device" "/dev/usb/hid1"
 >          Option      "StreamsModule" "usbms"
 > 
 > (These change includes bits written both by me and by Russ Blaine of the
 >   Solaris kernel group here at Sun.)
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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