an interesting usb mouse hack for gamers

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qgriffith · Post by **qgriffith** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:35 am

I just got a MX510 and I am having the same issue below... Cruise Control works fine expect for when I am in KDE and I have something in my klipboard buffer and hit the up button it will paste what I have in the buffer. Anyone else have this but us two?

miknight wrote:The logitech_applet is fantastic. The cruise control thing is something I've been wanting to get working for some time (I have an MX-500). One thing that bothers me though, the cruise control button above the mouse wheel also seems to double as the third mouse button as well, which means it pastes stuff when all I want to do is scroll. Has anyone else experienced this and/or know of a fix?

Medrakil · Post by **Medrakil** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 2:21 pm

krejler wrote:http://omfg.linux.dk/pub/patches/hid_po ... test7.diff

Here you go

And what should I do with this file?

r3pek · Post by **r3pek** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:11 pm

patch the kernel....

dob · Post by **dob** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:55 pm

For those noticing an improvement with the 500Hz patch, what mouse do you have?

I know that the guy who wrote the patch has a logitech mx. And a clan mate who also has a logitech mx says it is working for him.

But I don't see or feel any difference with my microsoft explorer 3.

KozmoNaut · Post by **KozmoNaut** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:48 am

dob wrote:For those noticing an improvement with the 500Hz patch, what mouse do you have?

I know that the guy who wrote the patch has a logitech mx. And a clan mate who also has a logitech mx says it is working for him.

But I don't see or feel any difference with my microsoft explorer 3.

It doesn't work unless the mouse is recognized, and the driver only recognizes Logitech mouses so far.

I have an MX310, BTW.

dob · Post by **dob** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:04 am

KozmoNaut wrote:It doesn't work unless the mouse is recognized, and the driver only recognizes Logitech mouses so far.

I have an MX310, BTW.

Still, when you look at the kernel patch, it seems completely generic, and not logitech specific

FirechilD · Post by **FirechilD** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:05 pm

maybe ive done something wrong with the logiteh applet?

done:

./configure
make
make install

if i try as root to get the current resolution with "/usr/local/bin/logitech_applet -g" there comes nothing, its the same if i try to change the resolution.

ive an MX300 wich should be supported by this program
somebody knows something about this?

edit: solved by adding the usbdevfs into the kernel, it works just great now

woodwizzle · Post by **woodwizzle** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:56 pm

The 2.6 patch is gone. Where can I get it?

krejler · Post by **krejler** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:44 pm

woodwizzle wrote:The 2.6 patch is gone. Where can I get it?

My bad... it's up again

woodwizzle · Post by **woodwizzle** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:11 pm

Thanks for putting that back up!

Paladine01 · Post by **Paladine01** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:55 pm

Is there anything like this for Microsoft Intellimice?

floam · Post by **floam** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:59 pm

Down again.

krejler · Post by **krejler** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:58 pm

floam wrote:Down again.

Yup, my server's harddrive died.

The file's up again though.

EDIT:
If the file's unreachable, or the server's down, try again after a while.

EDIT 2:
OneOfOne is actually also hosting it, heh, here's a link:
http://oneofone.limitlessfx.com/love-so ... 7.diff.bz2

desktopfan · Post by **desktopfan** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:41 am

The 500hz USB polling hack should work for all usb mice. However the logitech applet(for setting 800DPI) only works for logitech mice.

I use both on my logitech dual optical and it works great. Ive heard that on the logitech mx series the 800DPI mode can cause negative acceleration. Can anyone confirm this?

Im after a mx510 and want to know if its going to have this same problem.

Safti · Post by **Safti** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:59 pm

hi,

anyone got that (logitech_applet) work with a mx900? The problem with this one is that she (mice? *g*) is not connected to the USB but instead using an USB-Bluetooth hub.. so in the list of my USB-Devices only this one is listed. I tried it with the ID for the Bluetooth hub in the logitech_applet.c (as mentioned before) but it does not work (of course

) (gives out some "that can't be" values if i run logitech_applet)

I realy like the 800 DPI feeling (know it from windows) and would be glad if anyone could help me to bring it to linux where everything else is better

syscrash · Post by **syscrash** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:50 pm

I just patched my kernel and it seems to work nicely.
Logitech iFeel mouse.

desktopfan · Post by **desktopfan** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:27 am

Some kernels can have issues with the 500hz patch. Not giving it enough cpu time etc. This happens when playing games mainly. To fix this renice events/0 to -20

This can be added into you local.start to make it easy.

I also think this gives added presicion when playing games. Renice X too and it should be perfect.

Gentii · Post by **Gentii** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:52 pm

How do you renices events/0 and X, and which nice did you give to X ? Also I thought we could only nice between -19 and 19

phex · Post by **phex** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:42 pm

renice -20 3, I'm guessing [events/0] has the 3rd PID. I looked at it on both of my gentoo desktop's and it had a PID of 3. If that's not the PID, then us can use "ps aux |grep events|awk '{print $2}' ". The first PID printed wil be events, if your a lil bit confused ,hehe just use 'top' and renice from there as root.

Gentii · Post by **Gentii** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:44 am

Well I found myself how to renice manually. For events/0, you don't even need the pid, just renice -10 events/0 seems to work, but renice -10 X does nothing. So as you said, I did it with top, but I can do it only manually at each start since the pid change. So I could try a line with renice -10 "ps aux |grep X|awk '{print $2}' ". But where do I put this line, since local.start is loaded before X ?
Anyway thanks a lot, because renicing these things helped a lot. Before, while playing enemy territory, my mouse get resetted a lot of times, looking at my foot or at the sky. After renicing, I played again and no problems at all. (I'm using the last love)

metalh34d · Post by **metalh34d** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:39 am

I normally renice my games and wineserver to 15 when I play. Will I want to renice events/0 to 15 or higher/lower than what I'm nicing games at? (for 500mhz patch)

Also on another note, I can't seem to figure out the right combo for patching my kernel with the hid patch... I've tried different starting points as well as -p0 and bleah bleah... where did everyone else patch from?

Edit: continuing my poking I learned how to read these diff files. For those who may have the same difficulties I had simply cd into your kernel directory and type: patch -p1 < (location of diff) for this specific patch

Mben · Post by **Mben** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:27 pm

anyone got it working with a mx duo (cordless)?

biN_basH · Post by **biN_basH** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:30 pm

Hey guys, which xset-settings do you use with that logitech-applet patch?

desktopfan · Post by **desktopfan** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:37 pm

You need to renice events/0 to -20/-19 to give the smoothest mouse in games. also renicing X to -20/-19 I have found gives best performance.

btw you can renice stuff like this

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renice -20 `pidof X`

Bot24 · Post by **Bot24** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:17 am

If you have a wireless mouse like the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 3 you shouldn't see any improvements from either tweak.