btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[NobeyamaGP]

I just upgraded to Kubuntu Hardy today and the first thing I noticed was the lack of evdev support on my MX1000. I managed to get it working again by using the default mouse driver and was trying to get all the keys working again. I discovered btnx today while trying to get it working. The only problem I have is, when I set my extra buttons, to of my buttons are somehow mapped to the same button according to xev. The two keys are my back button and the cruise control up button which I have mapped to the "Home" key. For some reason, both are claiming to be button 8. For this reason I can't remap button 8 to something else because then I lose the use of by browser back button. I'm at a loss of what to do. Any ideas? Thanks.

[steveneddy]

To everyone with the 100% CPU bug: upgrade to btnx-0.4.10 and btnx-config-0.4.9, and run btnx-config at least once like I described in the post above. Let me know if the problem persists.

The 100% cpu bug is squashed.

Maybe a new feature that would compliment this.

Sometimes I walk away from my PC and if it will be a significant amount of time, I will turn off the mouse to save batteries. I must restart btnx after this.

Any way we could make btnx stay running so I don't have to restart all of the time without the 100% cpu issues cropping back up?

[Jorenko]

I'm still having X catch my keys on Hardy. Here's my xorg.conf. Both of the Device options give the same result. I'm on 0.4.10 / config-0.4.9.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse0"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
#       Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        Option          "NoLogo"        "True"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        Defaultdepth    24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Module"
        Load            "glx"
EndSection

[airjer]

btnx worked on my 8.04 RC1 install, but now on the actual release no matter what I've tried (including compiling myself and installing) whenever I try to restart btnx from the config I get this...



install:

sudo apt-get install btnx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-mutagen python-pyvorbis python-pyogg
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  btnx-config
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  btnx btnx-config
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/131kB of archives.
After this operation, 680kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  btnx-config btnx
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Selecting previously deselected package btnx-config.
(Reading database ... 116816 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking btnx-config (from .../btnx-config_0.4.9-hardy1~ppa2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package btnx.
Unpacking btnx (from .../btnx_0.4.10-hardy1~ppa6_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up btnx-config (0.4.9-hardy1~ppa2) ...
Setting up btnx (0.4.10-hardy1~ppa6) ...
Starting btnx : Button Extension - mouse button rerouter daemon
 btnx: uinput modprobed successfully.
 btnx: Opening config file: /etc/btnx/btnx_config_Logitech MX Revolution
 btnx: No startup errors.
 btnx: Parent done.
btnx successfully started

[daou]

no i did a fresh install after a fresh hardy install. just ran btnx-config to test - still 2 copies, did a reboot and still 2 copies

What happens if you disable hotplugging from the advanced options in btnx-config and restart btnx or reboot?

EDIT: I found the bug in btnx that was causing the other process. I'll release a fix later.
EDIT: Fix released as btnx 0.4.11

[daou]

btnx worked on my 8.04 RC1 install, but now on the actual release no matter what I've tried (including compiling myself and installing) whenever I try to restart btnx from the config I get this...

Did you try with the new deb packages first? I just made them yesterday and only tested the Feisty version, but that worked.

If you run

$ sudo /etc/init.d/btnx restart

do you get an error?

If you run

$ dpkg -s btnx

do you see this in the output?

Conffiles:
 /etc/init.d/btnx 3ed4871581b5881541a2c795114641bf
 /etc/btnx/events 8fae5cc25dd25de132da8b4da727e11a

And do you see a file called btnx with the command

$ ls /etc/init.d

[MoridinBG]

I installed latest version (Gentoo ebuild) on my laptop, but it only recognises the touchpad. xorg.conf part for external mouse is absolutely minimalistic. Both mouse and touchpad used /dev/psaux, so I moved the mouse to /dev/input/mice which made no difference. This happens with both a4Tech X6 Mouse and Logitech RX300.

[daou]

I installed latest version (Gentoo ebuild) on my laptop, but it only recognises the touchpad. xorg.conf part for external mouse is absolutely minimalistic. Both mouse and touchpad used /dev/psaux, so I moved the mouse to /dev/input/mice which made no difference. This happens with both a4Tech X6 Mouse and Logitech RX300.

Is the problem with the daemon or btnx-config's detection? Could you post the output of "cat /proc/bus/input/devices".

[daou]

The 100% cpu bug is squashed.

Maybe a new feature that would compliment this.

Sometimes I walk away from my PC and if it will be a significant amount of time, I will turn off the mouse to save batteries. I must restart btnx after this.

Any way we could make btnx stay running so I don't have to restart all of the time without the 100% cpu issues cropping back up?

If you have hot-plugging enabled in btnx-config, btnx should autostart when your mouse is detected by the system. And in the last sentence you wrote, does this mean the 100% CPU bug still lives (does it appear after you turn off the mouse)?

[MoridinBG]

Is the problem with the daemon or btnx-config's detection? Could you post the output of "cat /proc/bus/input/devices".

Detect Mouse from btnx-xonfig reacts only to the Touchpad, not to the external Mouse.
Here is the output for the mouse:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=09da Product=000a Version=0110
N: Name="A4Tech PS/2+USB Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input18
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse3 event11
B: EV=17
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=303
B: MSC=10

Here is the touchpad:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=25b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

It's strange that there is a PS/2 Mouse section, while I don't have a PS/2 port on the machine:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=synaptics-pt/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event6
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3