HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide

[Zieher]

Hmmm, for some reason I can't get evdev to control the mouse. I set up udev rules as in first page. Either I write the rule to include "Logitech USB Receiver" and nothing happens (though movement of mouse will wake up system) or I include "Logitech Bluetooth Mouse" and X crashes on startup. xorg.conf is also setup by instructions on 1st page.

Can't post the codes (.conf, udev rule) right now because I'm currently on another machine. I'll do this in a while.

Funnily enough, "mouse" works fine with my MX900 except for the "cruise up". Momentarily I can live with the "flaw".

Does anybody know if this setup has its problems with bluetooth mice, or it's just my ineptness?

[BLTicklemonster]

Each time I have tried doing my mouse lately (been busy trying edgy, but I finally have dapper back right now), I get some kind of wacom or something in my input devices. I get stuck out of x because this appears out of the blue each time I try to get the mouse settings right. I removed the lines from xorg.conf, but still could not get into x, then I noticed:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

The stylus, cursor, and eraser are each part and parcel of the wacom or whatever it was. I #-ed them and now I can boot.

Thing is, what the heck?

Also, it sure would be nice if you could take an entire section you don't want, and just

/*
comment
the
whole
thing
out
like
this
instead
of
#
at
the
head
of
each
line
or
ctrl-k
to
remove
a
line
at
a
time
*/

But /* is not recognized, so you have to # each line. Shame.

So I guess I try to remember the name of that wacom or whatever it is and remove from synaptic, maybe? Why did it show up? I have a tablet, but it's not hooked up.

[detyabozhye]

Hmmm, for some reason I can't get evdev to control the mouse. I set up udev rules as in first page. Either I write the rule to include "Logitech USB Receiver" and nothing happens (though movement of mouse will wake up system) or I include "Logitech Bluetooth Mouse" and X crashes on startup. xorg.conf is also setup by instructions on 1st page.

Can't post the codes (.conf, udev rule) right now because I'm currently on another machine. I'll do this in a while.

Funnily enough, "mouse" works fine with my MX900 except for the "cruise up". Momentarily I can live with the "flaw".

Does anybody know if this setup has its problems with bluetooth mice, or it's just my ineptness?

Yeah, get me the /proc/bus/input/devices, udev rule, and xorg.conf so I can see what's wrong.

Your mouse is wireless, correct? And the reciever can be for keyboard as well?

[detyabozhye]

Each time I have tried doing my mouse lately (been busy trying edgy, but I finally have dapper back right now), I get some kind of wacom or something in my input devices. I get stuck out of x because this appears out of the blue each time I try to get the mouse settings right. I removed the lines from xorg.conf, but still could not get into x, then I noticed:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"

The stylus, cursor, and eraser are each part and parcel of the wacom or whatever it was. I #-ed them and now I can boot.

Thing is, what the heck?

Also, it sure would be nice if you could take an entire section you don't want, and just

/*
comment
the
whole
thing
out
like
this
instead
of
#
at
the
head
of
each
line
or
ctrl-k
to
remove
a
line
at
a
time
*/

But /* is not recognized, so you have to # each line. Shame.

So I guess I try to remember the name of that wacom or whatever it is and remove from synaptic, maybe? Why did it show up? I have a tablet, but it's not hooked up.

I got the wacom thing in Edgy as well. It should be fine to just delete all the wacom, stylus, eraser stuff from xorg.conf. Are you saying it keeps coming back though?

[spockrock]

has anyone gotten an mx700 mouse to work in edgy?
creating a udev rule just causes x to crash, and without the rule my buttons are all messed up when using xev.

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "evdev"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event9"
EndSection

[detyabozhye]

In Edgy Eft, I got it to work without the udev rule using the Name Option in xorg.conf, I haven't tried it in Dapper though, so I'm not going to edit the tutorial yet:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Name"	"Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
EndSection

[BLTicklemonster]

It only comes back if I have to dpkg reconfigure because of a video driver problem (which I was having when I tried edgy on a fresh install. I gave up and came back after a while. I'll let them smooth it out a bit more), or if I did dpkg reconfigure phigh.

But why does it come up? Quite odd.

[spockrock]

detyabozhye tried that no dice.....

[bjorkiii]

Just like to say thanks for the information i have finally have back and forward buttons on mx1000.

[bjorkiii]

I keep right clicking and clicking back , i keep forgetting the side buttons work.