Extra buttons of the MX1000

Jonas Witt · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject: Extra buttons of the MX1000

Hi,

today I got my new Logitech MX1000. First I have to say that I'm impressed by this nice mouse. Now I am trying to get the extra buttons to work in X11, which does not seem to be easy.

Whatever I try, the 3 buttons on the left side only produce mouse events with button = [1,2,3], and the two buttons beside the wheel only produce events 4 and 5, which lets you use them like a scroll wheel. However, I can't get them to produce 'their own' events. From my xorg.conf:

MetatronX99 · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 70 Location: Warren, MI

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=46

try that out for size.

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bastiaannaber · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I also bought an MX1000 today and I am very pleased with it! I got all 12! buttons working by putting the following in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (I am a debian user)

scoobydu · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

Think I'll wait for the bluetooth puppy to come out

Nice mouse though, what are you going to do with all those buttons!
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Jonas Witt · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:56 am Post subject:

I tried bastiannaber's solution, but my xorg-x11-6.7.0 doesn't know the protocol 'evdev'. I think that I am missing the event device support; does anyone know how I get this?

@bastiannaber: Which kernel do you use? It looks like 2.6 to me.

@MatatronX99: This is about the solution I tried. But I will try to use protocol explorerps/2.

Jonas Witt · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:43 am Post subject:

Now I have

Archangel1 · Veteran Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

AFAIK, you also need xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 or newer for evdev. I have an mx700 and evdev is the only protocol that supports all the buttons, so I would imagine that evdev would be the only protocol that would properly support the mx1000.

Jonas Witt · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:04 pm Post subject:

OK, I have the evdev module now; thanks for pointing that out, Archangel1.

Anyway, oberyno is apparently right, because xorg-x11-6.7.0 won't use the evdev protocol for me. Now I have to wait a few hours to test -r2.

Jonas Witt · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

Wow! With xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 and evdev all 12 buttons of this great piece of hardware work. Time to fire imwheel up. Thanks, boys!

Jonas Witt · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

Grmpf. When using the evdev protocol, my mouse hangs about every 5 minutes. Switching to console and back solves the problem for the next few minutes. Any ideas?

Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

I'm using evdev with an MX500 and don't have that, so no idea what could be causing it. Isn't it just the mouse powering down to conserve batteries?

Jonas Witt · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:05 am Post subject:

Are you using the XFree or X.org's Server?

ashtray · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 8

I just got my MX1000 today and I am wondering if anybody got it working right. All 12 buttons are working but CruiseControl returns two events: button 4,7 and 5,8. Is it possible to get horizontal scrolling?

Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

alv · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 58

Jonas Witt · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

I'm currently on 2.6.8-nitro5, but have used it with a lot of kernels without any issues (multiple iterations of nitro, 2.6.7-ck5, and a few xx-sources as well).
Note that I'm using an MX500 though.

Horizontal scrolling: X recognizes vertical scrolling as merely two extra buttons... doesn't it do the same for horizontal?
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alv · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 58

Ghostryder · Apprentice Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 216

Well,

I have bought the MX1000 too. I tried using the "evdev"-Protocoll, but when I use it the wheel doesn't do anything. I changed "ZAxisMapping" to different values but that doesn't change the situation.
The mouse works with ExplorerPS/2. But the horizontal buttons don't work.

My X-Free Version is 4.3.0-r6. Has anybody got a solution for the horizontal feature? Or can anybody tell me how to use the "evdev"-Protocoll correctly....

thanks g.

alv · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 58

You should really switch to X.org....but anyway. IIRC the xfree was also patched to provide evdev, but if you get messages saying that evdev protocol is not recognized, you should upgrade to the newest xorg or xfree.

My xorg.conf (XF86Config equivalent)

Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
# The mouse protocol and device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse,
# which is usually a symbolic link to the real device.
Option "Protocol" "evdev"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7 8 9"
Option "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:10.1-1/input0"
EndSection

Dev Phys or Device need to be specified (and need to match).
Ideally you should use just the Dev Phys. That way the driver will find the right event file to use.

Buttons needs to be specified to the number of buttons + 4 for the tiltwheel.
(Your numbers will differ -- my mouse is actually MS Wireless IM Explorer v2)

The hardware will map the actual buttons into buttons 1 through X.
This means that you should pass "X+1 X+2 X+3 X+4" to the ZAxisMapping.
Sometimes the hardware will map the buttons into non-consecutive button numbers, in which case you should use the gaps. The main point is to give nonused buttons for the Zaxismapping, or you will start mixing them.

After that you should use

Ghostryder · Apprentice Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 216

Thanks at first for your answer!

But I don't know exactly where to get the "Dev Phys". An output of lsusb gives me that:

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a81:0101 Chesen Electronics Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0660 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Do I have to take it from here? (it looks kinda different than yours)

And "cat /dev/bus/usb/devices" gives me that:

.......

T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 6 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=046d ProdID=c50e Rev=25.00
S: Manufacturer=Logitech
S: Product=USB Receiver
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 70mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usbhid
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms

So I think the usbhid are in use... Any suggestions?

thanks a lot!

Jonas Witt · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

From bastiaannabers config: Try

Doikor · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

Anyone know if the mx1000 goes to 800dpi on default or does it need the logitech_applet. And does the 500hz hack work on it?

anarchist · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 264

It doesnt look like as if the logitech applet could switch the mx1000 to 800dpi, it says it does not support it