Re: [9fans] serial mouse issues

Re: [9fans] serial mouse issues

[ramkromberg]

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Thanks erik, though I now only have access to the qemu machine (I'm not
not home) I think using kbmap will help allot by creating a map in
/sys/lib/kbmap/ to replace the start key with the middle mouse button and
maybe I'll even add in something for the mouse wheels (I see mouse-csa
and mouse-fn are a common solutions to laptop ;-) ).

I'm still hoping for someone to guide me through on debugging the mouse,
any takers ? Again, I know its not a hardware issue but rather a driver
issue...

P.S: As far as I can gather, the system register the serial port as
/dev/some-device then a second driver interprets the signal to a second
/dev/some-mouse-device and then rio does the rest, So its a matter of
identifying which devices are responsible to what, reading out the
information (cat won't work, I need to monitor the info in a more
"lively" fashion), identifying which part fails, and then making the
necessary modifications (code & compile ? script ? definitions file ?), I
just don't have the skillz... help... :-)

Thanks,
Ram Kromberg
ramkromberg@mail.com

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Re: [9fans] serial mouse issues

[erik quanstrom]

kbmap is a kernel driver that maps keys and mouse buttons.

- erik

On Sun Apr  1 15:44:49 EDT 2007, ramkromberg@mail.com wrote:

> * Hopefully someone here will guide me on how to fix the mouse
> functionality (the mouse works on other systems so its a plan 9 issue
> rather then an hardware issue), but I'm also interested on re-programming
> the shift key in rio so to switch between buttonmap 132 and 123, this way
> I can still have some functionality from that machine if all else fails.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ram Kromberg
> ramkromberg@mail.com
> 

[9fans] serial mouse issues

[ramkromberg]

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I'm having mouse troubles, I have a serial mouse with a mouse wheel (set
to port 0).

The left and right button are working well, but the middle mouse wheel is
having troubles :
mousewheel up: cursor goes a little up and to the left.
mousewheel down: little to the right.
click mousewheel/middle button: little to the right + right click menu.
Worse yet when I shift+right click, the copy/paste menu flickers on and
off and I can't choose any of the commands.

I did some debugging (man mouse) and I noticed that when I use "echo
buttonmap 132 > /dev/mousectl" I can use the copy/paste menu but I
obviously lose the windowing menu...

* Hopefully someone here will guide me on how to fix the mouse
functionality (the mouse works on other systems so its a plan 9 issue
rather then an hardware issue), but I'm also interested on re-programming
the shift key in rio so to switch between buttonmap 132 and 123, this way
I can still have some functionality from that machine if all else fails.

Thanks,
Ram Kromberg
ramkromberg@mail.com

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