From: John Murphy <swl@freeode.co.uk>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mouse support for just the wheel and left button.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:03:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151217170358.4483481a@z68> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151217160341.GO25177@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:03:41 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:34:10PM +0000, John Murphy wrote:
> > I'm able to scroll through entries on pages in my BIOS using the wheel
> > (Asus Maximus VII Formula). Not sure if that means anything.
>
> That probably doesn't mean anything. The firmware can choose to handle
> the mouse in any way it wants, but the interface actually provided to
> the boot loader through EFI is more limited.
>
> The UEFI spec mentions x, y and z axis for a pointing device and
> recommends using z-axis for scrolling, but I don't know if the mouse wheel
> would be used as a z-axis, or just button 4 and 5 (which uefi doesn't do,
> only left and right).
If 'standards' have carried through from xorg.conf / mousedrv, buttons 4
and 5 would be wheel buttons. Button 4 is the default for "which button
must be held down to enable wheel emulation mode." (man mousedrv) but again
- may not mean anything.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-17 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-17 2:52 Mouse support for just the wheel and left button John Murphy
2015-12-17 5:52 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-12-17 13:34 ` John Murphy
2015-12-17 16:03 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-12-17 17:03 ` John Murphy [this message]
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