From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:25:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071225164921.16bccae3@poseidon.drzeus.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:55956 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752536AbYACQZX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:25:23 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so403250nfb.21 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:25:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071225164921.16bccae3@poseidon.drzeus.cx> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Pierre Ossman Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Pierre, On Dec 25, 2007 10:49 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: > From: Pierre Ossman > > 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