Horizontal mouse wheel (a4tech mouse) with X ?

[Matthias Hopf]

On Oct 25, 07 09:26:01 +0200, Pavel Troller wrote:
>   I'm a new owner of an A4tech X5-005D mouse. This one is equipped with two
> wheels for vertical and horizontal scrolling.
>   I can't make the horizontal wheel work properly. It generates exactly the
> same events as the vertical one - buttons 4 and 5.
>   Using xev, I've found that my mouse can generate events from "buttons"
> 1,2,3,4,5,4,5,8,9 - the later 4,5 generates the horizontal wheel, instead of
> 6,7. I don't know why.
>   In my xorg.conf there is classic ZAxisMapping "4 5 6 7" line.

Which version of the mouse driver do you have? There has been some
protocol selection automatism included in later versions.
Please also check the kernel driver with 'evtest /dev/input/event*'
(select the correct device there), and check whether the wheels are
handled differently.

> wheels. So where is the problem ? In the kernel layer (/dev/input/mice ?)
> Or is something misconfigured in X?

We'll see. Both are possible.

Matthias

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