XFree configuration for MX500/MX700?

Kyro · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2002 Posts: 56 Location: Over here

Hiya everyone! I just recently got myself a Logitech MX500, which replaced the trusty old USB MouseMan Optical I've had for a year or two. Now the question is; how do I make it function all the way under XFree? With my old mouse, the thumb button (on the MX500 replaced with two navigation buttons) worked as if it was the same as the middle mouse button (Scroll wheel pressed). Does anyone know how to rig this up properly so that all the (9?) buttons will work under X? (9 if I count wheelup and wheeldown as buttons).

With my old mouse, I used the following section in XF86Config

loco · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 29

the both arrow buttons work only as wheelup/down and the button on top got no keycode so i don't know if there is a easy way to use it
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
i got to remap some buttons for scrolling
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
if there is a better solution i can't wait to learn it :p

Carlos · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 9:37 am Post subject:

Shouldn't you be able to use imwheel? With it, it should be possible to get an arbitrarily large number of mouse buttons working. The threads about getting IntelliMice and Logitech mice working should be helpful; searching...

Wait, this is a duplicate thread. Everything you need to know is in Logitech MX700.

I'm really tempted to get one; so much easier to have a button mapped to "Back" than to have to move the mouse to the button and press it...
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loco · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 29

imwheel works fine =)) i tried it
btw. did you know about mousegestures ... ??? http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/
you get a lot more direct accessable the u 've mousebuttons =))

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

arg. None of these threads on getting multiple mouse buttons are working for me. X doesnt seem to acknowledge that my MX700 has 7 buttons (Actually 9 but I'd be satisfied with 7)

When I try and use xmodmap it complains that I don't even have 7 mouse buttons for the mapping and xev is only reading 5 different buttons across all 9 buttons.

Carlos · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 9:36 am Post subject:

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

Yeah, I'd almost think that was the problem--actually it was for a bit. I've since rebooted and all sorts of other stuff several times though since fixing it so can't be that...this is driving me crazy. A similiar problem to this was what frustrated me back to windows last time :\

Carlos · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 10:18 am Post subject:

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

good suggestion...

From the tail end of the XFree log:

Carlos · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 12:42 pm Post subject:

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

heh, yeah, that might be it. . . I had that in root and was starting X with `startx` and `gdm` probably always in that dir.

the mouse is very nice actually but I can't get the top 3 extra buttons to do anything except as another scrollwheel-up/scrollwheel-down and no-button-at-all respectably front to tail.

If I could figure out the imwheel config I could get the forward and back buttons on the side working. I sorta did but didn't spend enough time sqrewing with them to set them properly. It might be partially my phoenix-cvs which has reported problems too...but it's definitely sending something--I just have no idea what it is...almost like a page up but not...

I did a lot of searching and there doesn't seem to be a solution anywhere yet to the 10 button problem. I found a thread on the usb mouse dev module message board where someone asked about the 10 buttons but never got a reply and someone who started working on an equivilent battery-monitor function (in windows drivers now) for linux. You mentioned something about imwheel for an arbitrary number of buttons? How do you work that? It seems to be differentiating the same way X is right now.

Other than the extended-extra buttons being qwerky, the mouse is very usable, comfortable and is much more sensitive/correct in it's cursor rendering(erm, whatever). My older logitech mouseman-usb would jump around when I used it on wood-grain, this one fixes it. The recharger is also pretty convenient and seems to recharge very quickly (1 hr?). Wireless is much more convenient than I thought it'd be...gets me out of my rsi prone old position and I imagine if I could get those other buttons programed to do things it'll only work better...

Carlos · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 9:43 am Post subject:

patr0ck · n00b Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1

Those settings worked for me under slackware 8.1.. but now i've some troubles with my mx700 (usb). The mouse does strange things. for example copy/paste if I move it...

what's the problem? should I load mousedev and how to enable this module?

IcePhoenix · n00b Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 1

Hey guys. I have a question pertaining to the MX700 as well. When I had Red Hat, I could play UT2003 perfectly. After changing distros to Gentoo, the mouse lags and it makes it hard to play the game in any capacity. Anyone run across this before?