HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide

[ricesteam]

W00t finally got my Logitech G7 fully functioning. Here are my config files for reference (yours will be different)


xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Dev Name"      "Logitech USB Receiver"
        Option          "Dev Phys"      "usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/event1"
        Option          "Buttons"       "8"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5 7 8"
EndSection

~/.xbindkeysrc (I use the Opera browser)

#Back Button
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[BackSpace]""
   m:0x0 + b:8
#Right scroll
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Right]""
   m:0x0 + b:6
#Left Scroll
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Left]""
   m:0x0 + b:7

Originally I had lots of trouble with xbindkeys. If you can't get it working, do what detyabozhye suggest and config your keys one by one. Remember to killall xbindkeys and rerun it to refresh the settings.

edit: "right" and "left" should both have capital first letters. ie "Right", "Left"

[rmjb]

Just a heads up, I got some linux header updates through update-manager and when I rebooted my mouse did not work.

When going through the guide initially I did not set my input/eventX to 9 but to what input/eventX was in /proc/bus/input/devices (2 in my case) and set the udev rule accordingly.

Anyhow after the update /proc/bus/input/devices listed my mouse as 3 even though the udev rule said 2.

After setting it to 9, as I should have done in the first place, and rebooting I have back my mouse.

- rmjb

[zero17388]

hi everybody, It works!!!!! i have a wireless logitech desktop (mouse and keyboard on the same receiver) and i've tried your new Howto many times but it didn't work neither with gnome nor xgl.
Under gnome all my mouse's buttons were recognise by xev but my keyboard was just totally crazy (keys were upside down) and I couldn't load X under xgl .
So I tried many things and thanks to the german site (I don't understand a word of germen but a french guy did), i've tried this: no udev, only the xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "WHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "4 5"
Option "HWHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

and here's the cat:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c512 Version=3900
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:10.1-2/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event2 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=7fffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0 0 1878 d800d100 1e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=143

Ihope it could help some people because it really mades me crazy... And sorry for my poor english but I'm french...

[ricesteam]

I have the same problem as well...

Can you tell me the steps on how to set your mouse to 9 ???

I don't understand what you mean by that.

Just a heads up, I got some linux header updates through update-manager and when I rebooted my mouse did not work.

When going through the guide initially I did not set my input/eventX to 9 but to what input/eventX was in /proc/bus/input/devices (2 in my case) and set the udev rule accordingly.

Anyhow after the update /proc/bus/input/devices listed my mouse as 3 even though the udev rule said 2.

After setting it to 9, as I should have done in the first place, and rebooting I have back my mouse.

- rmjb

[ConstableRoark]

So has anyone found a solution to the problem of the inactive media keys on the Logitech MX Duo and similar products?

[rmjb]

I have the same problem as well...

Can you tell me the steps on how to set your mouse to 9 ???

I don't understand what you mean by that.

Follow part 2 of section 1:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=219894

- rmjb

[detyabozhye]

So has anyone found a solution to the problem of the inactive media keys on the Logitech MX Duo and similar products?

OK, before you did this guide, was your mouse and keyboard (assuming they use one reciever) hooked up by USB or PS/2?

I'm assuming that they are now hooked up by USB, as they wouldn't be able to work with evdev on PS/2.

The kernel USB drivers don't recognize some media keys, so if you can't get anything in xev when you press media keys, most likely you won't be able to get them to work without patching the kernel (which I'm not all too sure about how to do).

[zero17388]

well I still have a pb, the event number of my mouse changes at startup, so the udev should that but my keyboard and my mouse have the same name, "Logitech USB Receiver" so it doesn't work.
The pb comes from the "PC Speaker" which changes its event number between the number 2 and the number 0 and so change all the event numbers.Is it possible to desactivate the "PC Speaker"? because I don't care about it...

[zero17388]

Maybe i've found something, in fact I use the udev rules to move the event number of "PC Speaker" to "event9" and so it seems that the event number of my keyboard an mouse are not changing any more!!! So I could configure my xorg.conf. Here are my different settings:

##cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c512 Version=3900
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:10.1-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120003
B: KEY=10000 7 ff800000 7ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: LED=1f

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=c512 Version=3900
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:10.1-2/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event2 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=7fffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0 0 1878 d800d100 1e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=143

##udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/19-local.rules :

KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{../name}=="PC Speaker", NAME="input/event9"

##ls /dev/input/ :

event0 event2 event9 mice mouse0 ts0

##/etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "WHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "4 5"
Option "HWHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "9 8"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Hope it will works for a long but after 3 restart, still working... Hope it could help... And thanks detyabozhye, for your help maybe I will need your help soon...

[thomasf]

The kernel USB drivers don't recognize some media keys, so if you can't get anything in xev when you press media keys, most likely you won't be able to get them to work without patching the kernel (which I'm not all too sure about how to do).

Yes, that's true. I use Logitech MX 3100 wireless set (keyboard + MX1000 mouse) and I have to decide - fully functional keyboard(connected by PS/2) or fully functional mouse (connected by USB). If I use USB connection, most multimedia keys don't work. I spent hours googling for solution but it seems we have to wait for appropiate kernel patch. However, I found something interesting on KernelTrap.org - http://kerneltrap.org/node/6460
As you can see user LEETE posted a kernel patch. I tried to apply it but something went wrong. I'm a beginner not familiar with progamming and kernel patching issues so maybe I'm making some mistakes. This is what I've done:
1)I've made empty text file in /usr/src/linux. I've named it hid_patch
2)I've pasted the patch posted on KernelTrap into hid_patch
3)In the terminal I've issued command:

root@ubuntu:/usr/src/linux# patch -p0 < hid_patch
patching file drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 4: value[n] = min < 0 ? snto32(extract(data, offset + n * size, size), size) :

Any ideas?

USB keyboards are present on the market for years...I'm surprised that Linux support them only partially.