HOWTO: USB Logitech mouse and 800 cpi with udev

[x03]

HP printer connected in that port?
Is your mouse connected to PS/2 port?

Logitech devices starts with 046d...

[~] > lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

EDIT: I just forgot to hook it into USB haha, it was hooked up to the little converter thing that came with it to connect to PS/2.

002.003: 046d:c025 MX500 Optical Mouse (M-BP81A) Caps: RES SMS
Resolution set to 800 cpi
SmartScroll enabled

Thanks for the HOWTO's guys!! All of these really help out people that are new to linux.

[p!=f]

btw, p!=f did a great job. I appreciated his write-up on how to set it up so that it runs at boot-up time as much as the script itself.

Thank you. Glad to read that.

[p!=f]

Please reread the first post again. I made some changes you may find useful.

[BMWolf]

p!=f thanks for the great write-up! The udev way seems to be the best solution yet.

i have a problem though. Everything is working just fine but when i reboot it fogets. once logged in i can unplug my mouse and then plug it back in and everything is back to normal(800dpi). am i supposed to also use the boot script method as well? i'm using the version that supports the 510. any help you guys can provide would be great. i assume it has something to do with permissions, but i have no idea what needs changed.

[p!=f]

p!=f thanks for the great write-up! The udev way seems to be the best solution yet.

Thanks

i have a problem though. Everything is working just fine but when i reboot it fogets. once logged in i can unplug my mouse and then plug it back in and everything is back to normal(800dpi). am i supposed to also use the boot script method as well? i'm using the version that supports the 510. any help you guys can provide would be great. i assume it has something to do with permissions, but i have no idea what needs changed.

Looks like a bug or something in udev. When you restart udev

 sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

after the boot it will work...

[wallijonn]

How do you check the settings in /udev? (Other than just typing them out)

[Buffalo Soldier]

LMCtl

anyone else having problem accessing that URL?

[p!=f]

anyone else having problem accessing that URL?

Me. I'll rewrite this HOWTO to use logitech_applet instead.
LMCTL is still available at http://freshmeat.net/projects/lmctl/ just in case.

[gizero]

I just noticed something weird: the lmctl package that is attached to the initial post in this thread detects my MX310 mouse correctly, but if I download the same version (0.3.2) from the official homepage it tells me I have an unknown or unsupported Logitech device. An md5sum on the two .deb packages (after uncompressing the attached .deb.gz file of couse) showed that they're not the same. So where did you get the attached Debian package, and why is it working better than the original?

[p!=f]

I just noticed something weird: the lmctl package that is attached to the initial post in this thread detects my MX310 mouse correctly, but if I download the same version (0.3.2) from the official homepage it tells me I have an unknown or unsupported Logitech device. An md5sum on the two .deb packages (after uncompressing the attached .deb.gz file of couse) showed that they're not the same. So where did you get the attached Debian package, and why is it working better than the original?

I added support for MX310 and MX510 mice into the code and recompiled.