HOWTO: Logitech MX Revolution in Dapper

[Jeeks]

I used this guide to setup my VX a couple of weeks ago and it worked like a charm. I loved everything about it. For some reason I had to reformat my laptop and re install ubuntu. Immediately I rushed to this guide to configure the mouse. To my surprise this time X did not start at all. I tried and tried and re tried and nothing happened. What makes me amazed is that it worked before, why wouldn't it work again?

Ok, I don't know how but now things are back on track.

[daou]

I'm glad it worked (again). I just got to try the VX for the first time. A friend bought one yesterday. It's a really nice mouse for laptops. I would've bought one for my laptop, but I think one Rev mouse is enough candy for any person . Only thing missing is the switching between free scroll when pressing the middle mouse wheel. But it's really well thought out, like the USB receiver slot (which also turns off the device to save power when the receiver is put in).

Did your problems with Ubuntu have anything to do with upgrading to kernel 2.6.17-11? This happened to me. It was a 15 minute fix, had to reinstall the nvidia drivers.

[wh0rd]

This tutorial works up to when X Starts and GDM is displayed, so at the login screen the mouse is detected and works. After I start logging in the slash screen displays and the mouse freezes and remains that way until I unplug the USB dongle and plug it back in?

[Capone]

any idea how to make the search key to actually start a new google tab in firefox? My scroll key already supports clicking..

btw, my mouse is a VX

[knn]

Add this to .xbindkeysrc

"firefox http://www.google.com"
c:122

[knn]

Just a quick note for feisty users: the mousekeys configuration file is now located in /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/

Edit: And to get rid of udev, I made a simple script (attached) that finds the event number assigned to the mouse and symlinks it to /dev/input/event9 (after removing /dev/input/event9). I've added it as an initscript before gdm, and it seems to work.
It's hardcoded to find the mx rev using the vendor and product ids, so if you want to use it with the vx rev, you'll have to modify those. You can find the id's in /proc/bus/input/devices (and in the first post)

To install it: copy the attachment to /etc/init.d/ and make it executable. Then you have to add an initscript for every runlevel that starts gdm. These are normally 2,3,4 and 5.
The directories for these runlevels are /etc/rcx.d , where x is the runlevel number. In these directories there should be a symlink called Sxxgdm, where xx is a number (13 in my case). This is a symlink to the script that starts gdm. Find an unused number lower than 13 (in my case there was an S12something, S11something and S10something file, so I chose 09) and make a symlink to the mxrev.sh script in every directory containing Sxxgdm:

for i in 2 3 4 5; do
cd "/etc/rc$i.d"
ln -s ../init.d/mxrev.sh S09mxrev
done

replace 09 with the number you chose.

[Church]

I used this and other guides (whatever i have googled up) with good success on slackware-current using modular X aswell.
at first i tried using main scroller as middle button via revoco's help .. but in mx revo mouse it just sucks, too easy to misclick/misscroll. and in mozilla based browsers easy to use middle click is essential. so i mapped search to mclick. only issue i've left with - as mouse is connected to KVM switch, after booting doze box aswell, logitech's software seems to change mouse behavior. i have to disconnect/reconnect mouse to restore search as middle (in doze i could set it only when i installed alongside official drivers uberOptions xml hack). btw, if you haven't installed xkbset, you can switch mousekeys on/off with shift+kpdnumlock.
For my convenience i made package including revoco, xkbset, udev rules creating hiddev devices and install script that auto-edits mousekeys definition file and setts up Xmodmap related things for root & users (def. GID=100)

( [ ! -f /etc/X11/xkb/compat/mousekeys.orig ] && \
cd /etc/X11/xkb/compat && cp mousekeys mousekeys.orig && \
sed -i -e '/Keypad\ actions./,/New\ Keysym\ Actions/d' mousekeys )

( for USER in root $(grep ':[0-9]\{1,\}:100:' /etc/passwd|grep sh$|cut -d: -f1);do
bin/su $USER -c "gconftool-2 --owner=$USER --list-type string --type list --set \
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/general/known_file_list '[.Xmodmap]'
gconftool-2 --owner=$USER --list-type string --type list --set \
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/general/update_handlers '[.Xmodmap]'"
grep "keycode 122" $(grep ^$USER /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f6)/.Xmodmap >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
echo "$USER's ~/.Xmodmap already contains *keycode 122 = Pointer_Button2*" || \
echo "keycode 122 = Pointer_Button2" >> $(grep ^$USER /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f6)/.Xmodmap && \
chown $USER $(grep ^$USER /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f6)/.Xmodmap
done )

for xorg.conf all that i needed was
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Phys" "usb-*/input0" # to use with whatever event #
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option "HWHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6" # to reverse horizontal tilt
EndSection

[orren2002]

Hello

Can someone explain how get mx revolution to work with Feisty

Thanks in advance

orren

[TomPreuss]

Hello

Can someone explain how get mx revolution to work with Feisty

Thanks in advance

orren

Are the instructions in the first post not working for you? What have you tried? Are you getting any errors?

[Nomearod]

The how-to didn't worked

After restart I didn't have X and had to change the x.org.

I'm using Feisty Fawn and here's mine file where MX Revolution is listed:

paulo@paulo-laptop:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c51a Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2 ts1
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c51a Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=f
B: KEY=7fff 2c3027 bf004440 0 0 1 f80 8807c000 667bfa d9415fed 8e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=40
B: ABS=1 0

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio3/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5
H: Handlers=mouse2 event5 ts2
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=ACPI_FPB/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0003 Version=0000
N: Name="Sleep Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0E/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input7
H: Handlers=kbd event7
B: EV=3
B: KEY=4000 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input8
H: Handlers=event8
B: EV=21
B: SW=1

The underlined part is what I copied to the udev config. file.

help?