Re: [DNG] mouse driver question
On 5/12/22 15:23, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: On May 12, 2022 9:44:39 PM GMT+02:00, Fred wrote: Hi Karl, I don't use a DE, just openbox and xterm. The regular scroll wheel mouse works correctly in both xev and the application. Button 2 is identified as 2 so I contend it has to have something to do with program(s) run to use the serial mouse. xmodmap -pp shows the buttons mapped correctly with both mice. The Xorg.log file has entries for USB Optical Mouse, Mouse Systems mouse and Sun mouse (when I gave that protocol to inputattach and gpm) but nothing about mouse buttons. Best regards, Fred A very interesting thread, never have I been so close to hardware! There's just one question itching me for a little while now: Is it possible, that this old mouse simply has some physical issue, triggered by using button 2? And if so, what would be the best way to prove it? libre Grüße, Florian Hi Florian, No, the mouse is fine. I have an application that I have used for 20 years running on Solaris 2.6. The Sun is retired but I still need the application. I was able to get it to compile and run happily on Devuan Beowulf and it works fine with the standard pc scroll wheel mouse. The program makes extensive use of the middle button which is a pain with the pc mouse. I would like to continue using the Sun three button mouse which works except the middle button. I have studied the output of the mouse with an oscilloscope and software and it is working exactly as a Mouse Systems mouse. There is some defugalty in getting the middle button information into user programs. Maybe a bug somewhere? Best regards, Fred ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] mouse driver question
On May 12, 2022 9:44:39 PM GMT+02:00, Fred wrote: > Hi Karl, > I don't use a DE, just openbox and xterm. The regular scroll wheel mouse > works correctly in both xev and the application. Button 2 is identified as 2 > so I contend it has to have something to do with program(s) run to use the > serial mouse. > > xmodmap -pp shows the buttons mapped correctly with both mice. > > The Xorg.log file has entries for USB Optical Mouse, Mouse Systems mouse and > Sun mouse (when I gave that protocol to inputattach and gpm) but nothing > about mouse buttons. > Best regards, > Fred A very interesting thread, never have I been so close to hardware! There's just one question itching me for a little while now: Is it possible, that this old mouse simply has some physical issue, triggered by using button 2? And if so, what would be the best way to prove it? libre Grüße, Florian -- [message sent otg] ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] mouse driver question
On 5/12/22 03:15, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: ... With xev, buttons 1 and 3 are correctly identified but the middle button is randomly assigned 4,5,6 or 7. Possibly this is the problem as I know the application is expecting button 2. Maybe it is the desktop environment or the window manager that messes this up. Try installing and using fvwm1 or something of similar age instead of what you are using currently and do the same test, or if you know how, run bare Xorg. /// It can also be the xserver config if you happens to have a xorg.conf that is picked up by X. Configs like buttonmapping and things related to emulateweel can mess this up. Look in man evdev (or man mousedrv). Look in your X11 log file for clues: $ man xorg | grep -A8 ' -logfile' -logfile filename Use the file called filename as the Xorg server log file. The default log file when running as root is /var/log/Xorg.n.log and for non root it is $XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/Xorg.n.log where n is the display number of the Xorg server. The default may be in a different directory on some platforms. This option is only available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real- uid 0). Regards, /Karl Hammar ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng Hi Karl, I don't use a DE, just openbox and xterm. The regular scroll wheel mouse works correctly in both xev and the application. Button 2 is identified as 2 so I contend it has to have something to do with program(s) run to use the serial mouse. xmodmap -pp shows the buttons mapped correctly with both mice. The Xorg.log file has entries for USB Optical Mouse, Mouse Systems mouse and Sun mouse (when I gave that protocol to inputattach and gpm) but nothing about mouse buttons. Best regards, Fred ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] mouse driver question
Fred: ... > With xev, buttons 1 and 3 are correctly identified but the middle button > is randomly assigned 4,5,6 or 7. Possibly this is the problem as I know > the application is expecting button 2. Maybe it is the desktop environment or the window manager that messes this up. Try installing and using fvwm1 or something of similar age instead of what you are using currently and do the same test, or if you know how, run bare Xorg. /// It can also be the xserver config if you happens to have a xorg.conf that is picked up by X. Configs like buttonmapping and things related to emulateweel can mess this up. Look in man evdev (or man mousedrv). Look in your X11 log file for clues: $ man xorg | grep -A8 ' -logfile' -logfile filename Use the file called filename as the Xorg server log file. The default log file when running as root is /var/log/Xorg.n.log and for non root it is $XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/Xorg.n.log where n is the display number of the Xorg server. The default may be in a different directory on some platforms. This option is only available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real- uid 0). Regards, /Karl Hammar ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] mouse driver question
To find out what's behind which /dev/input/event* device, and generally what's going on with the input stuff on the kernel side, I usually check: "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
