On Sat,11.Apr.09, 12:45:34, Kelly Clowers wrote: > /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/10-x11-input.fdi is an example Uh, I missed that one, but I doubt it would have helped anyway. > file, with comments, and this might be more focused and relevant: > http://mvogt.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/xorg-evdev-and-emulatewheel/ Thanks, this was the needed info. Now I have this: ,----[ /etc/hal/fdi/policy/emulate-wheel.fdi ] | <match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"> | <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge> | <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge> | </match> `---- (had to restart both hal and Xorg) and ,----[ /var/log/Xorg.0.log ] | (II) config/hal: Adding input device TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: always reports core events | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Device: "/dev/input/event8" | (II) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Found 3 mouse buttons | (II) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Found x and y relative axes | (II) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Configuring as mouse | (**) Option "EmulateWheel" "true" | (**) Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2" | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: EmulateWheelButton: 2, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 | (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" (type: MOUSE) | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00 | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms | (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) set acceleration profile 0 `---- The 'ZAxisMapping' mentioned in that blogpost does nothing, as the manpage for evdev confirms (the option does not exist for evdev). > I have personally not gotten the fdi file to have any effect, so I > use setxkbmap in my xinitrc. However, I have seen plenty of > blog posts where people got it working with no trouble. For the keymap you don't need an .fdi file, see /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz. Just install console-setup and 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' (or edit /etc/default/console-setup if you prefer the manual way). > For more info use google keywords like xorg, hal, evdev, fdi, > emulatewheel Must have been too tired yesterday, thanks a lot for that link. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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