Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . . [solved]

[klerfayt]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

you should try with

Driver   "evdev"

one more time even though you said previously that x won't start, in that case:

"cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /somewhere"

so start with simplistic configuration

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Option   "CorePointer"
 Driver    "evdev"
 Option   "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
EndSection

Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" is determined by:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c03f Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=f0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

[integr8e]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

NO WAY!!! It worked this time! I guess it was just waiting for you to give it the command, cuz' it wasn't workin' for me :P

Alright, what next?

[klerfayt]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

NO WAY!!! It worked this time! I guess it was just waiting for you to give it the command, cuz' it wasn't workin' for me :P

Alright, what next?

that's hard to tell not knowing what doesn't work, see if there is any change in mouse buttons with xev again, after that assuming left-righttiltwheel still does not work:

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Option   "CorePointer"
 Driver    "evdev"
 Option   "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
 Option   "HWHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "6 7"
EndSection

don't forget to change event2

[integr8e]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

Almost there, it doesn't scroll left and right like it should, but it does navigate back and forward through Firefox. It now reads the left/right tiltwheel as buttons 2&6 and 2&7; should I try <Option "buttons" "9">?

[klerfayt]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

Almost there, it doesn't scroll left and right like it should, but it does navigate back and forward through Firefox. It now reads the left/right tiltwheel as buttons 2&6 and 2&7; should I try <Option "buttons" "9">?

isn't that what it should do by default? (go back and forward in history?)

[integr8e]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

I like that feature, but it's supposed to scroll the page left and right (like the scroll-wheel scrolls up and down). If we can't get it to do that, I'm fine with it navigating back and forward.

[klerfayt]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

I like that feature, but it's supposed to scroll the page left and right (like the scroll-wheel scrolls up and down). If we can't get it to do that, I'm fine with it navigating back and forward.

it does scroll left and right like you wanted, just in firefox it goes back/forward in history; open some high-resolution picture in gimp and see for yourself

#Edit
or see it in firefox:
about:config
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action 1
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines true

[integr8e]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

IT DOES!!! Pretty cool! Thanks

[klerfayt]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

I forgot to ask if xev also shows buttons8/9 in their right place?

[integr8e]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

Ugh! No, they show as 6 & 7.

[integr8e]

Re: Left/Right Tiltwheel Problem . . .

I figured out why I was having a problem with the evdev driver at first; I apparently had to load all the modules listed in the xorg.conf.new file generated by the command "sudo Xorg -configure". After some more experimenting, I found the evdev driver will not run for some reason if the modules are not loaded at boot, but will if they are :P