Mouse driver for Linux event interface

[Torgeir Veimo]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 19:10 +0200, Matthias Grimrath wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 19:05, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:53 +0200, Matthias Grimrath wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have written a driver that uses the /dev/input/eventXX Linux
> > > interface to obtain input events from a USB mouse. My motivation
> > > was to be able to use all 10 buttons + wheel that my shiny new
> > > mouse offers :-)
> >
> > Is this the correct place to add code that allows a touchpad's left
> > side function as a scroll pad?
> 
> Both the "official" evdev driver and my implementation basically only 
> translate events generated by the kernel into events used inside the 
> Xserver. So IMO the kernel should generate wheel events if a touchpad 
> offers a side function. But this is really only my opinion.

I was thinking about functionality similar to the sidetrack driver for
os x. http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/15/004403.php 

Don't think any such functionality would be implemented inside any
kernel module.

-- 
Torgeir Veimo <torgeir at pobox.com>