Logitech Marble Mouse & Intrepid

[jcphil]

I finally understood how a mouse is supposed to be configured under the new X setup. I even found a configuration for my mouse here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lo...arblemouse_USB

But this has no effect on my mouse. The only effect I see is that left/right click no longer pastes what I highlighted earlier. Any other things I can try?

[jcphil]

Hmm! My latest update tonight incuded an update for evdev. Now the tiny buttons on my Marble Mouse work, but what they do is move me forward and backward in the history of my Web browsing. That's some progress. But how to get them to scroll?

[mormegil]

I'm having the same issue. This problem is addressed in the community docs:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lo...arblemouse_USB
and is reported solved here:
http://tennessee.ubuntuforums.com/sh...=938487&page=2

These solutions seem to have no effect on my Logitech Marble mouse, still cannot scroll.

[mormegil]

Reboot and it works (logging off and on didn't seem to do it). The wiki thread implies that rebooting isn't necessary. Anyway, good to have scrolling again. Hope the solution works for you.

[xm4ss4cr3]

That was my initial problem too, but using the example mouse-wheel.fdi from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lo...arblemouse_USB I got the tiny left one to scroll.

To use the other button for scrolling just switch around some numbers on the ButtonMapping line.

I use the other button to close tabs in Firefox (ctrl+f4). To map keypresses to that little button use imwheel.

my imwheelrc:

".*"
None, Up, Control_L|F4

"(null)"
None, Up, Control_L|F4

The little left button is button 8, and the right one is button 9.
To start imwheel with the above configuration for button 9 start it like:

$ imwheel -k -b "9"

[jcphil]

To the poster above, I can only say that I have re-booted a good twenty or so times since I changed the policy in /etc/hal/fdi/policy. It hasn't made any difference. I tried the imwheel suggestion too. The current behavior is:

1. left tiny button goes back to the previous page in history
2. right tiny mouse button minimizes Firefox

Both of these things are a long way from scrolling. So, I'm damned if I know what works.

[mageus]

The fix listed in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lo...arblemouse_USB works . . . temporarily.

However, if you unplug the trackball, the functionality will be lost and you have to restart the x server.

I have my trackball and keyboard plugged into my monitor. When I turn my monitor off (if I leave the computer), it cuts its USB port connections. When I return, I've lost the scroll functionality.

Apparently, if you add:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

to your xorg.conf file, it uses the older xorg configuration. I'm going to try this out.

[dupsatOU]

Apparently, if you add:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

to your xorg.conf file, it uses the older xorg configuration. I'm going to try this out.

This worked for me! I just upgraded from 8.04 to intrepid and my marble mouse stopped working the way it was supposed to and I discovered the hal/fdi stuff. I couldn't get that to work apparently but I put the above suggestion in my old xorg.conf file and it worked just like it used to. Little button scrolls and two big buttons together are my middle click.

My mouse section from my xorg.conf is below for those who are curious.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Logitech USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "EmulateWheel" "1"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

[kmoffat]

Are you connected via USB or PS2

[kmoffat]

FYI:
In Ubuntu 9.04 I added the following file, /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi, and my Logitech Marble Mouse, plugged in to USB, has scroll wheel functionality, apparently both verticle and horizontal, at least in Firefox, while holding the small left button and moving the ball:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.product" string="Logitech USB Trackball">
<merge key="input.x11_options.Buttons" type="string">5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ButtonMapping" type="string">1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">8</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">300</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>