Extra buttons of the MX1000

koroumel · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject:

In /etc/X11/xinit, create a file called Xmodmap that has something like "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 11 12 9 10 4 5" as text inside it. Now it will be loaded at startup!
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koroumel · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:

By the way :

xorg.conf

Heliode · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

I Think I figured it out. I emerged coldplug and, after rebooting, I also got a entry for "Logitech USB Receiver" in my /proc/bus/input/devices . Now all the buttons generate events.
I've used xbindkeys (as described in this howto) to set the two thumb-buttons for back and forward, and the middle thumb button for 3ddesk.

However, no matter what I do, I can't get the damned thing to scroll

the wheel generates mouse-events 11 and 12, and those are entered in ZAxisMapping... so I don't understand why it doesn't scroll. Any ideas?

I've learned a lot thanks to this topic! Before any of this, I never realised setting up a mouse could be so complicated. Quite an eye-opener

Thanks so far!

Edit: strangely, when xbindkeys isn't enabled yet, the forward thumb-button scrolls down while the back thumb-button scrolls up

My current xorg.conf;

koroumel · Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:21 am Post subject:

If you use xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 11 12 9 10 4 5, you will have scroll wheel and the side buttons will navigate forward/backward in web pages.
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Gwydion77 · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

I think currently it's not possible to get all buttons working when the mouse is connected via PS/2.
But this cannot be a PS/2 limitation, because under Windoze all buttons work properly.

Does anyone know how to get unfiltered "raw" data from the ps/2 port? All devices I have tried (like "cat /dev/input/event0") do not show anything when pressing the middle thumb button or the horizontal scrolling buttons. So I think that these devices only show somehow "filtered" output.

Heliode · Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject:

koroumel · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:25 am Post subject:

Delete that Xmodmap from your home dir, and from the /etc/X11/xinit/ dir, they could be messing up things for you. Honestly, I can't see what else is going wrong. Since you can see events for every button in xev, you can then program the buttons to you liking by using Xmodmap. You shouldn't restart you X server after you type the Xmodmap string (in case you did so). Could you also try not to use xbindkeys for mouse events... in case this is conflicting with Xmodmap (some would say that what I just typed is totaly wrong.... and they are possibly right)
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Gwydion77 · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

Heliode · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

koroumel · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:36 am Post subject:

Strange, if itr is in xinit, it should get loaded, maybe the system is not checking for the config file there... I really don't have a chance checking it now... as usual I'm at work stuck with a win2k desktop system.
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karr · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

I should point out that I am using an mx310, but this thread still helped me get all 8 buttons working. I noticed something interesting about the "Dev Phys" option. It seems that with the mx310 it is unneeded, and causes the mouse, and Xorg to not work if the mouse is plugged into a different USB slot than the one used for "cat /proc/bus/input/devices", since each usb slot has different value for this.

Like I said, I don't know if it hold true that you dont need Option "Dev Phys" with the mx1000, but I thought I would point it out, in case it does.

satanskin · Guru Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 353

I have a MX1000 and so far I've the scroll wheel to use page up and down, and the front button on the side to do close (alt+f4 in gnome). I have the back button on the side set as minimize (alt+f9 in gnome), but it isn't working for some reason. Below is a copy of the .xbindkeysrc. I even tried adding the -xsendevent to it also for the minimize with no luck though. Any idea how to make it minimize the window? Also, any ideas on getting the scroll to be a smaller and smoother scroll, i.e. 3-5 lines rather than a page at a time? Thanks.

# the up and down by the wheel pages up and down
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Page_Up]""
m:0x10 + b:11
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Page_Down]""
m:0x10 + b:12

#Close window
"xvkbd -text "\[Alt_L]\[F4]""
m:0x10 + b:5
#Minimize window
"xvkdb -text "\[Alt_L]\[F9]""
m:0x10 + b:4

floam · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject:

If you havn't switched yet, I'd highly reccomend everyone switch to one of the Xorg 6.8.99 snapshots that are in portage. They have official evdev support in them thats much easier to use and automatically maps the buttons to work properly everywhere.

I put together a little guide/information dump on getting it to work this way, if anyones interested:
http://floam.sh.nu/guides/mx1000
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H-Dragon · Guru Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 547

great idea, floam... but i am using a ati radeon 9600xt with ati-drivers.

how do i get around that and ati-drivers incompatibility with the new xorgs????
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xante · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 229

Well I have all the buttons recognized using this xorg.conf:
x11-base/xorg-x11
Latest version available: 7.0
Latest version installed: 6.8.2-r6

xante · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 229

Oh, I see where my mistake is, Alt_L Left causes mozilla firefox to go back a page, just change that to a quick Left only and you have your horiz scrolling for the majority of programs anyways. Just thinking about this after using it for a couple days, is there any better way, that would allow all programs to recognize horizantal scrolling or could you set specific movments per application, Like:
When left horizantal scroll is operated in firefox it sends a "Left" from the keyboard.
And say if your using gimp, it would scroll in or out which is "ctrl up/down" If i remember correctly.
These are just examples.

xante · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 229

Not so lucky I guess, couple of days playing around and Ive come to the conclusion, I still need the forums support. With the configuration above I have discovered that a single click left or right will do the trick, but when I hold down the left/right direction the first movement will be left/right but after holding it it will move up and down again, any solutions?

XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

my first thing is me and evdev aren't getting along... and I probably won't change to a higher version of X 'till it get's stable. I have scroll working. and I don't care about horizontal scroll. the forward and back thumb button's seemed to be mapped to the same event's as 1 and 2. don't know why. they are the only thing I care about working. I see some people have like 4 button's in there zaxis and others have 2 in there xorg.conf. I've also tried several different configurations of xmodmap... none of it works. I'm pretty sure I can get these button's working as they merely just seem to be mapped wrong... maybe I should say it's a 12 button? because it won't detect the horizontal scroll? I've no idea.... I can post those the relevant section's if needed however. It won't say much. oh I have the bluetooth mx1000 I got the desktop set.
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XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

oh and floam... your site is laggy... you need to redesign it take the fancy stuff your trying to do out. I don't mean to be insulting. It's pretty bad here.
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