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

[Jim Stapleton]

Ahh! Thanks!

Which port would you recommend for xorg7? It's not in devel or x11. I
have 6.9 running now, and the install did go smoothly, so I'm willing
to try a 7 install.

Having all of these buttons work properly is probably the last step I
would need to make a full and confortable switch completely from
Windows to BSD :-)

thanks,
-Jim

On 5/19/06, Marshall Pierce <mbp at cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
> Jim,
> I was catching up on my freebsd lists, and saw this... Note that you
> can't use evdev unless you're using Xorg 7, as far as I know. Once
> you're
> on xorg7, you can use evdev as the driver for your mouse, and things
> Should
> Just Work. See this guide: http://floam.sh.nu/guides/mx1000
>
> HTH,
> Marshall
>
> On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Jim Stapleton wrote:
>
> > 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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