Re: logitech mouseMan wheel doesn't work with 2.6.5

From: Erik Steffl
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 01:38:24 EST


Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 01:47 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

What protocol are you using in XFree?

that's irrelevant, I got the results above without X running (by

No, it is not. Please change protocol in XF86Config to ExplorerPS/2.
...
Kernel only provides emulation of 3 protocols via /dev/psaux: bare PS/2,
IntelliMouse PS/2 and Explorer PS/2. Since your program does not issue
Intellimouse or Explorer protocol initialization sequences it gets just
bare PS/2 protocol data - 2 axis, 3 buttons. Extra buttons are mapped onto
first 3. For exact mapping consult drivers/input/mousedev.c

thanks, that makes sense, I tried ExplorerPS/2, it works better, the wheel works but side button is still same as button 2.

would it be different if I used /dev/input/mouse0? or /dev/input/mice? kernel Documentation/input/input.txt seems to be fairly old (mentions 2.5/2.6 in future tense) and it says to use "ExplorerPS/2 if you want to use extra (up to 5) buttons" when discussing what /dev/input/mouse0 provides. Does that mean that there's no way to use extra side button (which is the sixth button)?

erik
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