HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide

[detyabozhye]

You're welcome. ^_^

No, in Dapper, the click part was necessary to cancel out the "extra" buttons because they acted as button one in Firefox in Opera. In Edgy, the problem is gone.

[BLTicklemonster]

Bah.

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c01b Version=1800
N: Name="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 ts0 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=3f0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
     Driver	    "evdev"
     Option	    "CorePointer"
     Option	    "Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" 
EndSection

Still nothing.

[Kelnoky]

After upgrading to edgy my extra buttons on the side of my MX518 aren't working anymore, so I looked up if there were any differences between dapper and edgy for the evdev driver and changed my xorg.conf according to what I found here:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"  
EndSection

In addition to the tiny problem that the side buttons aren't working I also got the big problem that the middle mouse button (the wheel) and the right mouse button switched their functions. So I have to do a right click with my mouse wheel and vice versa...
Solutions?

[detyabozhye]

Xmodmap should solve the problem. We'll just need to play around with the configuration file (~/.Xmodmap) a bit to make it right.

Install Xmodmap via Synaptic (or whatever u choose), then do:

gedit ~/.Xmodmap

paste this in there and save it:

pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

And run:

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

And tell me what happens.

[BLTicklemonster]

Well, it said it was only going to change the first 32 of 9 buttons, so I don't know what to do about the others... koff koff...




But I have my forward and back buttons now. Only thing is, right clicking doesn't work any more. Well, it does sort of. I have to highlight stuff then press ctrl+c to copy, then all I have to do is right click and it pastes automagically. Odd, but doable.

Thanks.

[rmjb]

Hello detyabozhye, earlier you said that edgy handled the cruise control buttons so we didn't have to. It was working before I switched to evdev in my xorg.conf, but even after removing the lines in my .xbindkeysrc that called the little click too, the buttons still dont' work.

Here's the relevant part of my xorg.xonf file:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
        Driver      "evdev"
        Option      "CorePointer"
        Option      "Name" "B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
EndSection

Is there anything else that needs to be added for the cruise control?

- rmjb

[BLTicklemonster]

I may have said doable, but I meant "it will do until such time as..."

How can I make meh buttons do as I please?

[Kelnoky]

@detyabozhye

I already have that exakt line in my .Xmodmap and "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" had no result. (only gave out "Warning: Only changing the first 32 of 10 buttons.")

[BLTicklemonster]

Section "InputDevice"
   # generated from default
   Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Here is my new xorg.conf.

Each button relates to a number, and running xev in terminal will show that. Now if I knew what number, in order, in this line

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 4 5 (picked out arbitrarilly)

related to what function, I could edit this myself. But I think it's time to open a text editor, and start testing different settings and paste results...


*edit:

for an MX310 MOUSE...

said results being:

settigs were:

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 4 5


xev said:
1 left click button 1
2
3 right click button 3
4 back side button 4 
5 forward side button 5 
6
7
8 wheel up 6 
9 wheel down 7
(clarification: xev didn't actually say that... I listed one through nine, then clicked each button and listed it next to its respective space with notation as to what was happening)
therefore:

pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 6 7

Let me clarify that a little further...

My mouse has nine buttons, so I listed 1 through nine, then drew a picture of my mouse and used xev (run from terminal) to see which button was numbered to do what. My side buttons were scrolling, numbered 4 and 5, and I knew that I wanted the wheel to scroll, so I noticed that 6 and 7 were my scroll wheels, and hey, when I scrolled, I was going forward and back in web pages, so it was simply a matter of moving the numbers around to the right places.

and now things are groovy

HOT DANG, I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT~!!

GOD I LOVE LINUX! TRY THIS IN WINDOWS~!!! no wait, I'd not have had this problem in windows... oh well, GOD I LOVE TINKERING!!!!


I hope this will help everyone who is having problems, and thank you detyabozhye for this whole thread!


*edit:
not sure why I worried, but I rebooted just to see what would happen, and no x failure this time, and all buttons are working.

[Kelnoky]

Woot!

So, after thinking a bit - my button 2 and 3 on my mouse are switched. Well, no wonder, the pointer line was:

pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 8 9 6 7 10

So I switched the 2 and the 3 and now its back to normal again.


Although my side thumb buttons are still deactivated...