btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[tregnaward]

seems like it would be fantastic, but i keep getting an

Error opening button event file descriptor: No such file or directory

when i run it in the foreground as mentioned above (to see why it's not working)

and, it's probably because i'm very new to this, but it took me quite a while to figure out that i didn't have build-essential installed to even get this far. would that be something to include in the instructions, or have i just not trolled the forums enough?

[daou]

seems like it would be fantastic, but i keep getting an
Quote:
Error opening button event file descriptor: No such file or directory
when i run it in the foreground as mentioned above (to see why it's not working)

It looks like btnx can't open the file /dev/input/eventX

where X is some number. Either btnx parsed the event name incorrectly, or the event handler is located in some other directory. Or something else weird. What version of Ubuntu are you using?

Try this command:

ls /dev/input

It should print out files in that directory. Are there any named "event"?

I'll try updating the program later today so it will give more detailed error messages.

[daou]

and, it's probably because i'm very new to this, but it took me quite a while to figure out that i didn't have build-essential installed to even get this far. would that be something to include in the instructions, or have i just not trolled the forums enough?

You are right, it should be included in the instructions.

[Bedpan.ca]

It's quite easy to accidentally press the wheel sideways when trying to scroll up and down on the MX Revo.

If I move the mouse side to side with my fingers no where near the scroll wheel (holding the back of the mouse at pad-level), firefox jumps a page forward.
It doesn't happen all the time, but enough to start bugging the crap out of me .

[Depressed Man]

When I try using "modprobe uinput" (without the quotes) I get "FATAL: Error inserting uinput (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/drivers/input/misc/uinput.ko): Operation not permitted" (without quotes).

Any idea of what's going wrong? I have a VX Revolution notebook mouse so I'm trying to get it working.

[Bedpan.ca]

When I try using "modprobe uinput" (without the quotes) I get "FATAL: Error inserting uinput (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/drivers/input/misc/uinput.ko): Operation not permitted" (without quotes).

Any idea of what's going wrong? I have a VX Revolution notebook mouse so I'm trying to get it working.

Try

sudo modprobe uinput

[Depressed Man]

Seems to run the command and return nothing. Is that the desired out come?

[Bedpan.ca]

Yep.
modprobe doesn't have an output. It just loads the module which other programs can talk to.

[Depressed Man]

Thanks! Followed all the steps and it works now! Now to customize the controls so it works with Beryl.

[blazoner]

2 separate issues on 2 separate PC's running Ubuntu FF 7.04

OK, issue #1
MX Revolution mouse

I altered my btnx_config file to perform FORWARD/BACKWARD funtions with the thumb-wheel as shown

# Thumb wheel forward. 
# Does an Alt+Left. Ex. Firefox forward
Button
rawcode	=	0x01011800
type 	=	1
keycode =	KEY_LEFT
mod1	=	KEY_LEFTALT
EndButton


# Thumb wheel back. 
# Does an Alt+Right. Ex. Firefox back
Button
rawcode	=	0x01011A00
type 	=	1
keycode =	KEY_RIGHT
mod1	=	KEY_LEFTALT
EndButton

but my buttons are behaving as if the button event type is 0, instead of 1. (Pressing the thumb-wheel in either direction goes forward or backward respectively, but releasing the thumb-wheel does the same action again, for a net effect of going forward or backward twice.)

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Issue #2

My second PC has an MX 600 mouse that I want to hexdump for you to play with.
When I use

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices > ~/devices_output

my mouse gives event1, but when I attempt to use

$ sudo cat /dev/input/event1 | hexdump

in terminal, I get no response at all from my system.

I'm new to Linux. Is there some extra component I need to be able to perform a hexdump? If not, what's my next step?