HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide

[detyabozhye]

@kendals:
Can I get you cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[BLTicklemonster]

... which I just did, and it works fine. THEN I came along and checked my email and saw your reply. Sorry I wasn't wearing my thinking cap last night. Thanks for all this neat info!

[kendals]

@kendals:
Can I get you cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Never mind- turns out that for no reason, the USB receiver for my LX7 Logitech stopped receiving data from the mouse, so I got it replaced (only 7 months old, phew! Within the 12 months which saved sending to Logitech)...

Guide worked perfectly after that

[KhaaL]

I don't know if this is caused by the edev/lomoco stuff, but my wacom board is now completly unusable. I'm running edgy eft knot-2, so it MIGHT be something to do with that... any wacom users experiencing the same thing?

[detyabozhye]

From the top of my head, I think it's probably something to do with xorg.conf. You'll probably need to do something there to get the wacom working.

[someusernoob]

Seriously, configuring my new MX 400 mouse with your tutorial was easier then installing the Logitech drivers under Windows (i ended up once with a BSOD)*.

I only needed the forward and back button to work, side scrolling is annoying anyway. But it worked, it worked great thank you very much.

*this was a conlict between my chipset drivers, my nvidia drivers and setpoint... before someone thinks im trolling or flaiming

[Zieher]

Hi,

first off, great HowTo. I appreciate the work done by the community, it was a reason for me to switch OS

(XP Home wouldn't let the BT-stack be started as SYSTEM, and Logicrap's software would only work correctly when logged on as admin - and for a multiuser desktop that is a waste of resource and a danger to system health)

I have a MX900 via its original BT-cradle, it works fine on the "mouse" driver, although it has one problem with the cruise control buttons: scroll up gives buttonpress b:6 and then the consecutive buttonpresses b:4 to scroll and a b:6 release after releasing cruise control button. I have tried to get it to work with evdev, but it doesn't seem to work correctly (followed your guide on page 1).

The BT-cradle is in HCI mode, because I want to sync my phone with Evolution (but that is an entirely different story). So it is not just a wireless extension of the USB Receiver.

Since I only need fwd and bck function in firefox (which I get w/o keybinding) I would be happy the way it is, except for the double function on my cruise control button.

cat:

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/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c705 Version=2704
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:03.0-2.1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

I: Bus=0005 Vendor=046d Product=b001 Version=2201
N: Name="Logitech Bluetooth Mouse"
P: Phys=00:07:61:16:2D:CF
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
H: Handlers=mouse1 event3 ts1
B: EV=f
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: ABS=300 0

all I need to know, is if evdev will fix the double function on my mouse, or if I ought to give up and forget the cruise control

[detyabozhye]

It should, I got cruise control buttons working fine using evdev while the "mouse" driver made the cruise up (I think) also do another button.

[infinityPlusOne]

Thank you! This works great with my MX 700. I can scroll and use my forward/back keys when browsing. I am a happy camper.

Cheers,

infinityPlusOne

[detyabozhye]

do itashi mashi te (you're welcome.) ^_^