I bought myself an AOpen Optical OpenEye mouse (gotta love our northern
neighbours with their faintly discordant understanding of English) which in
addition to the basic two buttons has two scroll wheels, one of which also
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 _pretty_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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