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http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/date/20040713 Tuesday July 13, 2004

Wheel Mouse support for Solaris: Part 1: Getting the software

After years of talking about it, we finally got the input device driver group and the X group together late last year to add support for mouse scroll wheels to Solaris. The support first appeared in Solaris Express 4/04 for USB mice on SPARC systems, and Solaris Express 5/04 for USB & PS/2 mice on x86 systems, and has now been backported to patches for Solaris 9 (which will be incorporated in the next Solaris 9 update release).

To get the support for Solaris 9, you need to install these patches or later releases, which should all be on SunSolve soon:

Solaris 9 sparc
112785-36X11 6.6.1: Xsun patch
115553-08SunOS 5.9: USB Drivers and Framework Patch
115004-02SunOS 5.9: /kernel/misc/kbtrans patch
117418-01SunOS 5.9: consms patch
 
S9 x86Needed for
112786-25X11 6.6.1_x86: Xsun patchUSB or PS/2
115554-10SunOS 5.9_x86: USB Drivers and Framework patchUSB
117417-01SunOS 5.9_x86: consms patchUSB
115003-02SunOS 5.9_x86: kbtrans patchUSB
117419-01SunOS 5.9_x86: wheel mouse support vuid PatchPS/2

If you use the Xorg or XFree86 servers instead of Xsun, you should already have support for PS/2 wheel mice from the raw PS/2 support in those servers directly. To get support for USB wheel mice, you'll need the updated drivers from the above patches or Solaris Express, and either get the latest Xorg source from CVS or apply the patch from Xorg Bugzilla #434.

For Sun Rays, the support was included directly in Sun Ray Server Software 2.0, and none of the above is needed.

For Solaris 8, there are freeware drivers written by two members of the Solaris community:

Later this week I'll write more about how to configure it and using it in applications.

Posted at 11:57PM Jul 13, 2004 by Alan Coopersmith in Solaris  |  Comments[3]