Re: Precise scrolling for wsmouse

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 00:11, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/21/21 11:31 PM, nia wrote:
> > Greetz tech-x11,
> >
> > OpenBSD has WSCONS_EVENT_HSCROLL and WSCONS_EVENT_VSCROLL.
> > These are useful for scrolling with precise coordinates.
> >
> > The following diff adds support for HSCROLL and VSCROLL
> > to our wsmouse(4) and synaptics(4), where it's used to provide
> > much smoother two-finger and trackpoint scrolling.
> > The synaptics driver also gets some simplification.
> > I think this is much better than its previous state.
> >
> > Also attached is a diff with the necessary changes to
> > xf86-input-ws.
> >
>
>
>
> On a -current system from today after applying the patches I get:
>
> ...
>
> /home/sysbuild/src/sys/rump/dev/lib/libwscons/../../../../dev/wscons/wsmouse.c:
> In function 'wsmouse_precision_scroll':
> /home/sysbuild/src/sys/rump/dev/lib/libwscons/../../../../dev/wscons/wsmouse.c:536:26:
> error: 'WSCONS_EVENT_HSCROLL' undeclared (first use in this function);
> did you mean 'W
> SCONS_EVENT_ASCII'?
>    536 |   events[nevents].type = WSCONS_EVENT_HSCROLL;
>        |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>        |                          WSCONS_EVENT_ASCII
> /home/sysbuild/src/sys/rump/dev/lib/libwscons/../../../../dev/wscons/wsmouse.c:536:26:
> note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function
> it appears in
> /home/sysbuild/src/sys/rump/dev/lib/libwscons/../../../../dev/wscons/wsmouse.c:542:26:
> error: 'WSCONS_EVENT_VSCROLL' undeclared (first use in this function);
> did you mean 'W
> SCONS_EVENT_ASCII'?
>    542 |   events[nevents].type = WSCONS_EVENT_VSCROLL;
>        |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>        |                          WSCONS_EVENT_ASCII
> *** Failed target: wsmouse.pico

And also xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-ws/dist/src/ws.[hc] will have to
be patched:
...

/home/sysbuild/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-ws/dist/src/ws.c: In
function 'wsDeviceInit':
/home/sysbuild/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-ws/dist/src/ws.c:453:14:
error: 'HSCROLL_AXIS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  453 |  axes_labels[HSCROLL_AXIS] =
      |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/sysbuild/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-ws/dist/src/ws.c:453:14:
note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in
/home/sysbuild/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-ws/dist/src/ws.c:455:14:
error: 'VSCROLL_AXIS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  455 |  axes_labels[VSCROLL_AXIS] =
      |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/sysbuild/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-ws/dist/src/ws.c:490:6:
error: 'struct WSDevice' has no member named 'scroll_mask'
  490 |  priv->scroll_mask = valuator_mask_new(MAX_VALUATORS);
....

(if one trivially fixes the previous).

>
> ....
>
>
> Otherwise I'd be interested to test - my synaptics trackpad is very
> sensitive to touch, anything to get it better is welcome (I've tried a
> number of sysctl parameters, it is usable now, but I still prefer to
> attach a mouse when running NetBSD on it).
>
>
> > Later I should make it so scrolling speed and
> > direction configurable in wsconsctl -m. But right now,
> > I should sleep.
> >
> > Testing would be nice.
> >
> > I have in my xorg.conf:
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >          Identifier      "layout"
> >          InputDevice     "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >          Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >          Driver      "ws"
> >          Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse0"
> > EndSection



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