From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263580AbTL2PWk (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:22:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263584AbTL2PWk (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:22:40 -0500 Received: from ajax.xo.com ([207.155.248.44]:4330 "EHLO ajax.xo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263580AbTL2PWh (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:22:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF04579.1090203@katana-technology.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:17:13 -0500 From: Larry Sendlosky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 and mice References: <173901c3cceb$02d68560$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <18cf01c3cdb0$2ab1cf20$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> In-Reply-To: <18cf01c3cdb0$2ab1cf20$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I can't get my Microsoft wheel mouse to work left-handed via USB or PS/2 adaptor. This is with 2.6.0 and KDE from RH9. I can only manage to get both buttons to be seen as right-handed mb3 or "normal" right-handed, i.e. mb1 and mb3. I do want to run 2.6.0, but I can't! Any ideas? (of course it all works fine with 2.4.23). larry Norman Diamond wrote: >Peter Osterlund replied to me: > > > >>>2. Also in Input device support, there is a section on Mice, PS/2 mouse, >>>and Synaptics TouchPad. These I compiled in and they don't seem to be >>>causing any problems. It seems that the Alps TouchPad is being recognized >>>as an Intelli/Wheel mouse instead of being recognized as a Synaptics >>>TouchPad, which is unfortunate but not really causing any problems. I've >>>read that Synaptics is most common in foreign countries but Alps is most >>>common in Japan. >>> >>> >>The synaptics kernel driver doesn't try to recognize alps touchpads. >> >> > >I guess that explains why the Synaptics driver didn't cause any problems >:-) > > > >>However, in the XFree86 driver >> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html >>there is a kernel patch (alps.patch) that makes the kernel recognize >>alps touchpads and generate data compatible with the XFree86 synaptics >>driver. >> >> > >Looking at that page, I'll guess that SuSE 8.2's version of XFree86 probably >already has that patch, because under X the touchpad is performing more than >half of those operations correctly already. > > > >>It doesn't work perfectly though, at least not for some hardware. The >>problem seems to be how to interpret the gesture bit in the alps mouse >>packets. >> >> > >That's OK, Alps supplies notebook vendors with drivers for Monopolysoft >OSes, and it seems that Alps hasn't completely got this working correctly >either. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >