I bought myself an AOpen Optical OpenEye mouse (gotta love our northern
neighbours with a faintly discordant understanding of English) which in
addition to the basic two buttons has two scroll wheels, one of which acts as
a third button (maybe their next version will have the second wheel act as a
4th button too) and two side switches.
Hunting around the Web for instructions to make the second scrollwheel work,
I ran across this page, which makes it all happen for XFree86-3.3.6:
http://www.consistent.org/terran/multiscroll.shtml
I can get the scroll wheels to operate, but both wheels appear to X
applications to be the same wheel. This is precisely the behaviour described
in the page above, which makes room for no less than 8(!) scroll wheels.
I am using XFree86-4.2.0-10mdk (double-heading a Banshee and a Savage4, it's
the XFree86 that shipped with Mandrake 8.2) and am wondering if
(1) the patch on the page above or something very close to it would work
in XFree86 v4.*; and
(2) if so, could such a patch _please_ be included in the main XFree86
code tree? Pulling down all of XFree86, de novo, applying one patch
and compiling it is not a trivial exercise, especially to fix such an
apparently trivial problem.
Cheers; Leon
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