Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons in XF4.0.2

[Grant Miller <grant@unixguru.org>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:04:19AM -0600, Michael Hope wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Grant Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:15:15PM -0600, Michael Hope wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to get a 2nd and 3rd mouse button working in XFree 4.0.2.  I'm
> > > > running kernel 2.4.2-pre3 from bitkeeper's sources.  I have the following
> > > > relevant options in my kerenl conifg: 
> > > > 
> > > > CONFIG_USB=y
> > > > CONFIG_USB_HID=y
> > > > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y
> > > > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
> > > > CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
> > > > CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID=y
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > /etc/sysctl.conf:
> > > > 
> > > > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 101
> > > > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 109
> > > > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1
> > > 
> > > I did a grep for 101 and 109 across linux/include/input.h - 101
> > > is the lineffed key (?) and 109 is the pagedown key.  Personally I use
> > > 
> > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation
> > > echo 87 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode
> > > echo 88 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I tried those numbers and 67 (F9) and 68 (F10) and that didn't work.  I
> > press on those keys and I don't get a response from X.  I ran xev (X event
> > viewer) and there were no events reported when I pressed on F9 or F10.
> 
> Hmm.  Something else is going on then.  67 and 68 work fine for me.  Do
> the echo lines above do anything?
> 


Yup,

root@dune:~% echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation 
root@dune:~% echo 67 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode
root@dune:~% echo 68 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode
root@dune:~% 
root@dune:~% cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation 
1
root@dune:~% cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode 
67
root@dune:~% cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode
68


Still no 2nd or 3rd mouse button in X.



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