From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:25:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000801030825s5d87c2eflc712979e587d4d6a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071225164921.16bccae3@poseidon.drzeus.cx>
Hi Pierre,
On Dec 25, 2007 10:49 AM, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote:
> From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
>
> Support the horizontal wheel present on many mice via the
> /dev/input/mice device by using the somewhat odd protocol extension
> of sending double wheel movements for the extra wheel.
>
> This is of course a rather error prone protocol extension, but it is
> found in some hardware and works well enough in practice. It is also
> the only horizontal wheel protocol supported by Xorg's mouse driver.
>
I'd rather not change the legacy mousedev driver. The extension is
rather non-standard and there is no telling what applications might
break. Please use evdev driver, it should support horizontal scrolling
AFAIK.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-25 15:49 [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv Pierre Ossman
2008-01-03 16:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2008-01-03 17:27 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-01-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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