HOWTO Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06 32 bit, based on endy's HOWTO

[detyabozhye]

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0063
N: Name="ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio2/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

Thats what mine looks like even though its the mx518 usb mouse?

Is that right and should i just continue on with the howto?

well, if it's plugged into the USB, it should work, but the Phys does look weird there, so I don't know if it will work.

[detyabozhye]

Guyzzz, can not you relly help me with the problem on the previous page (2)?
I don`t know what else should I try

Thank you a lot.

I posted it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=20
Did you try that?

[detyabozhye]

Thanks, but it causes my machine to freeze! Rebooted in Single User Mode and found:

zao@amd:~$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Configured Mouse"
(WW) No core pointer registered
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "evdev brain" (type: evdev brain)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other)
(II) evdev brain: Rescanning devices (2).
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices

My xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/g5"
EndSection

My /etc/udev/rules.d/19-local.rules:

KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{../name}=="Logitech USB Gaming Mouse",NAME="input/g5"

All ideas are welcome

what happens when you try just using "/dev/input/eventX" (X being event number)?

[XomboX]

I posted it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=20
Did you try that?

Yes, I have tried it. Well, the thumb button works as a bakward in firefox, but it does nothing in nautilus. When I run xev, it correctly recognizes the thumb button as button number 6!! Good step Thank you, man!

This is my .xbindkeysrc:

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[left]""
m:0x0 + b:6
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[right]""
m:0x0 + b:2

I want the middle button to work as forward and thumb button as backward. However it doesn`t work. The problem must be in xbindkeys.

Notice: when I run" xbindkeys -key" and I click whichever mouse button, it does nothing. It can only recognize keyboard buttons. Isn`t the problem somewhere here?

[moose6589]

Try switching "2" and "3" places in .Xmodmap

Thanks, that did the trick.

[souled]

I'm trying to 'make' click, but I'm getting this error.

gcc -Wall -o click click.o -L /usr/X11R6/lib/ -lX11 -lXtst
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [click] Error 1

I installed the two packages listed before, but I'm still getting this error. Anyone have a fix for this?

[detyabozhye]

Yes, I have tried it. Well, the thumb button works as a bakward in firefox, but it does nothing in nautilus. When I run xev, it correctly recognizes the thumb button as button number 6!! Good step Thank you, man!

This is my .xbindkeysrc:

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[left]""
m:0x0 + b:6
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[right]""
m:0x0 + b:2

I want the middle button to work as forward and thumb button as backward. However it doesn`t work. The problem must be in xbindkeys.

Notice: when I run" xbindkeys -key" and I click whichever mouse button, it does nothing. It can only recognize keyboard buttons. Isn`t the problem somewhere here?

well, to test and see if it is xbindkeys or not, try to make button 6 (or whichever) launch a known app, like gedit (if ur running Gnome), for example:

"/usr/bin/gedit"
  m:0x0 + b:6

If it launches gedit, then it's not xbindkeys.

Remember, when you change .xbindkeysrc, you should restart xbindkeys:

killall xbindkeys
xbindkeys

[detyabozhye]

I'm trying to 'make' click, but I'm getting this error.

gcc -Wall -o click click.o -L /usr/X11R6/lib/ -lX11 -lXtst
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [click] Error 1

I installed the two packages listed before, but I'm still getting this error. Anyone have a fix for this?

Try installing xlibs-dev

[XomboX]

well, to test and see if it is xbindkeys or not, try to make button 6 (or whichever) launch a known app, like gedit (if ur running Gnome), for example:

"/usr/bin/gedit"
  m:0x0 + b:6

If it launches gedit, then it's not xbindkeys.

Remember, when you change .xbindkeysrc, you should restart xbindkeys:

killall xbindkeys
xbindkeys

OK. I have just tried it. It nothing has changed. The thumb button still works as a backwards in firefox only. Xbindkeys ignores my .xbindkeysrc.

I also tried to bind CTRL+N, but it didn`t work too. So the problem is not in mouse but in XBINKEYS.

"/usr/bin/gedit"
    m:0x14 + c:37
    Control+Mod2 + Control_L

So what next shall I try?

Thx!

[detyabozhye]

hmm, that's weird, I don't know what can be done in this case. Maybe you could give imwheel a go?