Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

[Jim Stapleton]

I have IMWheel installed and setup, and below is the mouse setting for
my xorg.conf file, however. Buttons 1-7 work just perfectly, however,
8 mimics the wheel-down, and 9 and 10 refuse to do anything, no
matther what I do with imwheel or the utility that lets me remap the
buttons

Oh, and I was wrong in an earlier post, it isn't the driver that they
posted and I couldn't use, it was the protocol (ignore my terminology,
and not the sample mouse-config part with "evdev" in it).

current mouse section of xorg.conf
========================================
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device"   "/dev/sysmouse"
        Option      "Buttons"  "10"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
========================================

~/.imwheelrc
========================================
  none, Thumb1, Alt_R|Left
  none, Thumb2, Alt_R|Right
  none, Left, Alt_R|Left
  none, Right, Alt_R|Right
========================================

~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc
========================================
exec startkde
imwheel -k -b "6789" &
========================================


I've tried using every variant of xmodmap that I could to alter the
mapping of 6-10, however, nothing gets buttons other than 6 and 7 to
work properly, and one of the others (I suspect it's 8) to mimic a
completely different button. Unfortunately, button 7 is the only
button that I don't like usin gon this mouse (hard to twist my hand to
press it).

By "not work properly", I mean that in any mapping other than the
default, (except reversing 6 and 7) with xmodmap, the buttons either
do nothing (normally), or act in a manner not previously specifice
(usually by mimicking a scroll up or down button). Mapping 9 and 10
into the place of 6 and 7 (i.e. ' xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10
8 6 7" ' or ' xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 6 7 8" ') ensures
that no buttons beyond 5 work.

I strongly suspect that signals from buttons 8-10 aren't reaching the
software that handles them properly. 8 is either being misread or sent
wrong, 9 and 10 appear to simply be dropped.

Thanks,
-Jim





On 3/31/06, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Jim Stapleton wrote:
>
> >Aye, it's got a lot of buttons, and I've tried transferring several of
> >the config settings, however, none of the drivers they pointed to seem
> >to exist in BSD, and they also pointed to devices, again nonexistant
> >in bsd.
> >
> >example, one involves the following:
> >
> >Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
> >Option "Protocol" "evdev"
> >
> >
> >If I try to use evdev, x refuses to start, and says said module does
> >not exist in the log file. The other variants I've seen have similar
> >modules that I can't find and won't load.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >-Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >On 3/31/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:13:49 -0500
> >>"Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and
> >>>this site, but I couldn't find any useful information on getting my
> >>>MX518 working with all of it's buttons in BSD (were I to downgrade
> >>>back to Linux, I could, but I'd rather not do that, ports is much more
> >>>useful than the extra three buttons).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Hey Jim
> >>i suppose this is a logitech mouse with lots of buttons? if you know it
> >>works with linux, why not transfer the config from linux to freebsd? (u
> >>dont need to install anything, just try knoppix). It should work out of
> >>the box (I believe moused is same across platforms, and xorg shouldn't
> >>worry too much about what OS it's being used under).
> >>
> >>otherwise, have u read man moused ?
> >>
> >>beto
> >>
>     Many people in Linux (at least), use imwheel for utilizing all mouse
> buttons on their mice, unless they use an internal X program to set the
> values for 'key strokes' obtained from the mouse by themselves (kind of
> a royal pain, if you ask me). Try searching for "imwheel gentoo" on
> google if imwheel's included in ports (don't have my FreeBSD machine in
> front of me right now to verify).
>     Also, if you're looking for the codes for your mouse's buttons, try
> using xev.
> -Garrett
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