Re: Mouse support for just the wheel and left button.

2015-12-17 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:03:41 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:34:10PM +, John Murphy wrote: > > I'm able to scroll through entries on pages in my BIOS using the wheel > > (Asus Maximus VII Formula). Not sure if that means anything. > > That probably doesn't mean any

Re: Mouse support for just the wheel and left button.

2015-12-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:34:10PM +, John Murphy wrote: > I'm able to scroll through entries on pages in my BIOS using the wheel > (Asus Maximus VII Formula). Not sure if that means anything. That probably doesn't mean anything. The firmware can choose to handle the mouse in any way it wants

Re: Mouse support for just the wheel and left button.

2015-12-17 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:52:05 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > 17.12.2015 05:52, John Murphy пишет: > > Hello and thanks for Grub. I use it daily. > > > > You need to boot so often? :) Twice today already! :) > > > I've seen questions regarding mouse sup

Re: Mouse support for just the wheel and left button.

2015-12-16 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
17.12.2015 05:52, John Murphy пишет: > Hello and thanks for Grub. I use it daily. > You need to boot so often? :) > I've seen questions regarding mouse support, but the answers imply that an > on-screen pointer is requested. I would find it very useful to be able to > use th

Mouse support for just the wheel and left button.

2015-12-16 Thread John Murphy
Hello and thanks for Grub. I use it daily. I've seen questions regarding mouse support, but the answers imply that an on-screen pointer is requested. I would find it very useful to be able to use the mouse scroll wheel (which is just two switch clicks if I understand correctly) to move u

USB mouse support, patch against trunk.

2013-10-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
Hi, This is a patch for usb mouse support in GRUB. I cannot take credit for the code. It was written by a former colleague of mine (Christer Weinigel). Added some cleanups and a bugfix. It should be usable as is for most standard protocol mice. Regards, Christian mouse.patch Description

Basic mouse support (cursor)

2012-07-29 Thread Patrick Plenefisch
Over the past few days, I've been hacking on GRUB, and implemented mouse support in the form of a virtual keyboard. That is when you move the mouse around it generates arrow key presses or enter on clicks. The attached patch is based on current bzr trunk (4559) and also fixes a build error w

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-12-13 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 23:18, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 01.10.2011 23:11, Vincent Pelletier wrote: More seriously, I feel the only value in this patch is in the ieee1275 wrappers for framebuffer entrypoints. Yes, that's interesting. We have ieee1275 framebuffer support on ppc but i

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 23:11, Vincent Pelletier wrote: > More seriously, I feel the only value in this patch is in the ieee1275 > wrappers for framebuffer entrypoints. Yes, that's interesting. We have ieee1275 framebuffer support on ppc but it fails and hence is disabled on sparc. Expecting this patch will

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Le samedi 01 octobre 2011 15:39:12, Tirtha Chatterjee a écrit : > So I wish to work on implementing mouse support for GRUB. I've attached the result of my early fidling with grub on sparc. Yeah, once I got grub to load, I made a serial msmouse work instead of working on things like

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
09/20/reengineering-the-windows-boot-experience.aspx >> >> However I despise the operating system itself ( :-P ), the idea of a >> beautiful graphical bootloader with mouse support integrated into it >> felt amazing to me. It lowered the barrier for the user, and gave the >&g

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
despise the operating system itself ( :-P ), the idea of a > beautiful graphical bootloader with mouse support integrated into it > felt amazing to me. It lowered the barrier for the user, and gave the > user an at-home experience right from switching on the computer. I I don't think t

Re: Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01.10.2011 15:39, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: > It would be really wonderful if someone with experience with the > relevant code can help me by guiding me when needed, and help me with > a few of the problems i am facing with testing my build of GRUB with > qemu. This is not an easy task. Unlike ke

Mouse support in GRUB

2011-10-01 Thread Tirtha Chatterjee
bootloader with mouse support integrated into it felt amazing to me. It lowered the barrier for the user, and gave the user an at-home experience right from switching on the computer. I wanted to check if something similar can be done with GRUB, and found out about the gfxmenu that was merged in 0.98. I

Mouse support

2005-08-25 Thread Vincent Pelletier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I added basic mouse support for ieee1275. It's really, really basic : - -Only works with serial mice - -Only works with Microsoft 2 buttons protocol (might work for 3 buttons without wheel) - -One has to set the serial speed from OpenFirmware co