Logitech MX1000 Howto (WIP)

KRA · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 11

Try adding numbers all the way up to 32.

It worked for me, however I have another problem. Running XGL it says I only have 7 buttons rather than 12, and appchanger button and forward button doesn't give a respons in xev.

johoe · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 92

KRA, I've the same problem with XGL - did you find any solution yet?

johoe

KRA · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 11

Never found a solution, I'm on Ubuntu dapper drake now, and have the exact same problem. I've tried a few different settings, but nothing seems to work. There are some wierd stuff though, like removing the Option "corepointer", makes the app changer button work (as button 1), but then the scroll wheel sideways doesn't work anymore.

Using driver "mouse" and protocol "evdev" (the previous way to do things) doesn't work either, X will fail.

I have no idea but my theory is that Xgl is using an older version of the evdev driver!?

johoe · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 92

Even tried "driver mouse, protocol ExplorerPS/2" - same results.

Few hours ago I though I got it: xev responded to all mouse buttons and I could bind them in .xbindkeysrc and they worked! But after a restart everything was gone. Later xev gave other results for the buttons - same procedure... And now - my thumb buttons are simply ignored.

Something is messed with the XGL input system - will wait for another cvs....

thanks for your reply,
johoe

enkil · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:57 am Post subject:

I had some trouble making the mouse work with modular-x, so here's what I've done so far:

IMHO Mousebutton 2 is extremely weird on this mouse. What I understand as button 2 is instead "tilt wheel left", so I remapped the buttons (throwing away button 2).
With xorg-6.8, I had to turn off smart scroll in order to get "my" button 2 working without triggering "wheel down" at the same time. With the new evdev-driver however, I have to enable it, otherwise the tilt-wheel doesn't produce any key-events. Anyone knows why? I'm now only using 9 of the 12 buttons (which is okay). Here's my layout (I name the buttons as floam labelled them on his guide)

Far side button: I used xbindkeys to map it to ctrl+pageup (next tab in firefox)
Near side button: ctrl+pagedown (prev. tab)
Middle side button: xmms -f
tilt wheel left: button 2
tilt wheel right: ctrl+w (close tab)

With the old xorg, I used the "buttons above/below" the scroll-wheel, too (page up/down), but I don't need them anymore..
Here's my .Xmodmap:

cancech · Apprentice Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 171

I was happily using all 12 buttons on my MX1000 till a little while ago.... Following what was mentioned here I managed to get it to work, but no evdev doesn't seem to be working....

cancech · Apprentice Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 171

Ok, well.... I fixed my problem.

Just to put a bit more light on the issue, I've got a wireless keyboard (LX700) combo, and there's interferance with the two base stations.... I'm going to have to look into hooking it all up via one base station, to make sure that I don't have these problems in the future.

Any advice on a second mouse entry would still be appretiated.

WladyX · Guru Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 503 Location: Romania

HI! I have a strange problem, sometimes the kernel boots and shows in dmesg:

enkil · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:54 am Post subject:

Regarding the 32 button-problem:

You just have to specify all 32 buttons atm. AFAIK it's a problem with evdev, it assumes 32 buttons (I read that this might get changed someday). My .Xmodmap looks like this:

richiefrich · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 27 Location: PA, USA

MorpheuS.Ibis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 141

did any1 get the middle side button workin'? I'm using it quite a bit (in win) and i would like to have the same mouse settings for both OS (side buttons are enough) can anyone help? btw. space is [Space or [KP_Space]<

enkil · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:51 am Post subject:

JoKo · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:30 am Post subject:

Is there any way to work using the simple "mouse" driver in X.org v7.0 for my MX1000? GNOME still has problems with evdev... I don't care if the additional buttons don't work for the time being.

Tanj · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject:

MX5000 Keyboard Mouse combo from logitech ( bluetooth )

after much ado, I finaly got evdev to not crash X

now I am getting this happening

Tanj · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:59 am Post subject:

ok I fixed my problem....only one corepointer allowed

oh well
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Tanj · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:06 am Post subject:

mapping isn't happening right.

mouse wheel works, forward/backward works. But the buttons with the wheel act the same as the wheel and generate the same event in xev
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Tanj · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:15 am Post subject:

Has anyone else found evdev doesn't not perform well when the system is under heavy load? aka playing games. I found that just starting up UT and UT2k4 cause my mouse to be unusable with lag. I tried doing the mousepolling thing but it didn't help at all.
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xante · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 229

Here is what I have as a working 12 button mouse with the following xorg/evdev/mouse

anhlon · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 35

just a quick question regarding the mx1000 buttons.

currently i have it detect all the buttons in xev, what is odd is that when i press the cruise scroll button it shows 2 key bindings to it 5 & 12 for both the keypress & key release events same for the other button it gives 4 & 11, but 4 & 5 is already occupied by the wheel. is that normal? if not where i did i mess up?

Iced-Tux · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:11 am Post subject:

I've found this nice howto for setting up your mouse
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MX1000Mouse

Probably one can enhance it one way or the other

Hope you find it useful.

iced-tux
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pjp · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:47 am Post subject: Re: Logitech MX1000 Howto (WIP)

Added this to the first post, as there seems to be a lot of, at least, outdated information prior to this set of instructions.

GenKreton · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

Whenever I run xmodmap I get the error:

Warning: Only changing the first 32 of 11 buttons.

It says first 12 of 11 when I try to use the other xmodmap pointer's posted.

I don't know what I did wrong really. Since I tried following the guides here I switched from IMPS/2 to evdev and followed it to the T and now scrolling with the wheel doesn't even work

If anyone could post a COMPLETELY working configuration, that would be best.

Right now I have

Doogman · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 236

When I switched to the new modular X I had a ton of problems getting my mouse buttons to work correctly as almost all the docs are badly out of date.

I guess it's time for a new and updated topic specifically about getting Logitech mice to work correctly with the new software.

GenKreton · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject:

I agree, this thread is horrendous to navigate. Hell, the little logitech applet is now on its third name, locomo or something.

I fixed the xorg error by finding a thread about using Dev Name since udev rules don't work now. Still, scrolling and the extra buttons don't work right at all. The keyboard is doing funny things this way too. I never changed anything keyboard related.

KevinLarson · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

I've been trying to follow many of the various guides and fixes, but x won't run when I set my driver to evdev in my xorg.conf. I have event0,3,4,5 all in my /dev/input and I think this means evdev is working, but I am failing to startx x when evdev is set to the driver.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, as I have wanted to get these buttons working for some time now.