[Xorg] why is Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" needed for my scrollmouse to work

[Jörgen Lidholm]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 02:14, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Well, that looks easy.
> 
> Unless someone knows why it would be a bad idea, maybe we
> should consider it.
>                       - Jim

I have a Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 which has actually 9 buttons.
Or 7 plus two non-working mousewheel-tilt-buttons.

I think that I have to remap my buttons so that the wheel is set
to button 6 7 and my side buttons to 4 5 to get them to work.

At least that is how I've configured it...

/Jorgen

> On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:05, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > > I've also wondered that - so much that for the builds I do for Sun
> > > for our own internal testing, I set it by default.  (Unfortunately,
> > > it's just in the Sun mouse support code right now - to do it for
> > > real would be finding the right place in the os-independent mouse
> > > code, so my patch won't help there.)
> > 
> > It's pretty trivial, we could even consider putting it in 6.8.0:
> > 
> > Index: mouse.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/mouse/mouse.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.3
> > diff -u -p -r1.3 mouse.c
> > --- mouse.c     24 Jul 2004 17:35:39 -0000      1.3
> > +++ mouse.c     15 Aug 2004 00:06:00 -0000
> > @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ MouseCommonOptions(InputInfoPtr pInfo)
> >          }
> >       }
> >  
> > 
> > -    s = xf86SetStrOption(pInfo->options, "ZAxisMapping", NULL);
> > +    s = xf86SetStrOption(pInfo->options, "ZAxisMapping", "4 5");
> >       if (s) {
> >          int b1 = 0, b2 = 0, b3 = 0, b4 = 0;
> >          char *msg = NULL;
> > 
> > 
> > > Jim Gettys wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Good question...
> > >>
> > >> I've wondered this myself.
> > >>
> > >> Is there any reason this can't be the default behavior,
> > >> and only have to mess around if you don't want scroll behavior?
> > >>                         - Jim
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:29, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Why is Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" needed for my scrollmouse to work.
> > >>> Can't there be some detection for this or just enabled by default?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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