Bug 2287

Summary:	middle button no longer works on 3-button wheelmouse
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Henk Muller (henkm)
Component:	Input Devices	Assignee:	Dmitry Torokhov (dmitry.torokhov)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	low
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.3	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Henk Muller 2004-03-11 14:08:32 UTC

Distribution: fedora
Hardware Environment: amd-k7
Software Environment: 
Problem Description: I bought an el-cheapo cordless wheelmouse (Maplin, RF
Cordless Wheel Mouse), and the middle button refuses to work. The mouse works
find under a 2.4 kernel. This problem is also reported on:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.3/1293.html
The mouse is recognised as a two-button mouse, even though it has three buttons,
hence the middle button does not work. I hacked logips2pp.c to solve my problem.
You can argue that the mouse is wrong and that the kernel is right...
 
Steps to reproduce:
Just reboot.

Comment 1 Vojtech Pavlik 2004-03-11 14:15:51 UTC

Can you provide the /proc/bus/input/devices file? I'd like
to see as what the kernel detected it - from your description
it seems that it's detected as an unknown Logitech mouse, which
would explain the 3-btn problem.

Comment 2 Diego Calleja 2004-03-13 16:02:35 UTC

Sorry, can be this related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034 ?

Comment 3 Henk Muller 2004-03-14 00:39:09 UTC

Dear Vojtech, please find the devices file below:

22:17:39 % cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd
B: EV=120003
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: LED=7

22:17:46 %

Re Diego's comment: by the sound of it Bug 1034 is different. This one
seems logitech specific.

Comment 4 Vojtech Pavlik 2005-12-20 23:36:02 UTC

We now always set BTN_MIDDLE if the mouse has a wheel, so this should be fixed
for quite some time.