Full Logitech MX1000 support in Fedora 8?

cdrom600 · #1 28th December 2007, 12:53 AM

First off, I'm new to Fedora, so I appreciate any help I can get here :)

I have a Logitexh MX1000, and I'd like to be able to use all the buttons (speed scroll up/down, browser back/forward, and I usually configure the "application switch" button to F5). I've searched around the forums and elsewhere, but everything I've found seems to apply to FC5 and 6 and use evdev, which I wasn't sure would be necessary in FC8.

Does anybody have any tips, pointer, or even better, directions on getting this working? I'd be more than grateful.

AllanPen · #2 28th December 2007, 01:02 AM

Mine is a Microsoft mouse but, I have used the same with a Logitech. First backup your xorg.conf. su -, password. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.bak. Then gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change your mouse part to:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "SampleRate" "800"
EndSection

This gives you the back and forward buttons. I don't know about other stuff.

cdrom600 · #3 28th December 2007, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllanPen

Mine is a Microsoft mouse but, I have used the same with a Logitech. First backup your xorg.conf. su -, password. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.bak. Then gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change your mouse part to:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "SampleRate" "800"
EndSection

This gives you the back and forward buttons. I don't know about other stuff.

Thank you. My back/forward buttons work now, as do the basic left/right and scroll wheel/middle-click, but the "application switch" doesn't do anythiing, the speed down button just scrolls down, and the speed up button goes back and scrolls up at the same time.

I'll do more research. Thanks!

cdrom600 · #4 28th December 2007, 03:41 AM

OK, I have this *completely* working. Yes, all the buttons - I have the App Switch button set to F5, back/forward works, cruise up/down works (mostly).

How To Set up All Buttons on Logitech MX1000 in Fedora 8

First, make sure you have a backup copy of xorg.conf.

1) The mouse device section in your xorg.conf should be as follows:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "evdev"
Option      "Phys" "usb-*/input0"
Option      "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option      "CorePointer"
EndSection

2) Add the line

Code:

InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

to your ServerLayout section in xorg.xonf.

3) Install xvkbd:

Code:

wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/xvkbd/xvkbd-2.8-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
yum localinstall xvkbd-2.8-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm --nogpgcheck
rm xvkbd-2.8-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

4) Install xbindkeys (it's in the repository)

5) Your ~/.xbindkeysrc file should read as follows:

Code:

# Action back
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text "\[Alt_L]\[Left]""
m:0x0 + b:8

# Action forward
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text "\[Alt_L]\[Right]""
m:0x0 + b:9

# Action F5
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text "\[F5]""
m:0x0 + b:10

# Action Cruise Down
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text "\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]\[Down]""
m:0x0 + b:12

# Action Cruise Up
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -text "\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]\[Up]""
m:0x0 + b:11

6) In System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions, add a startup program called Xbindkeys (or whatever you want) that runs the command

Code:

/usr/bin/xbindkeys

That's it! Enjoy!

Hints about xvkbd came from http://www.howtoforge.com/installati...ra8-desktop-p3

Is there a wiki or howto section I could post this in to help others who have the same question?

slickridley · #5 4th January 2008, 01:03 AM

thank you for your guide but following it has messed up my scrolling, instead of scrolling down i scroll thru web pages, any tips?

AllanPen · #6 4th January 2008, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slickridley

thank you for your guide but following it has messed up my scrolling, instead of scrolling down i scroll thru web pages, any tips?

Does it scroll ok on say an email message or document? If so; check in "about:config" if you're using Firefox and see if you can find the setting there. It seems I saw it in there.

slickridley · #7 4th January 2008, 01:56 AM

excuse my fedora newbishness, but looking at my ff's about:config i dont think i see what i'm looking for

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...reenshot-1.png

cdrom600 · #8 4th January 2008, 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slickridley

thank you for your guide but following it has messed up my scrolling, instead of scrolling down i scroll thru web pages, any tips?

Are you talking about the scroll wheel or the fast-scroll buttons?

slickridley · #9 4th January 2008, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdrom600

Are you talking about the scroll wheel or the fast-scroll buttons?

the scroll wheel,
when i roll up it goes back, when i roll down it goes forward

if it matters, i have a amd64 but i installed the x86_64 packages shown above

AllanPen · #10 4th January 2008, 08:53 PM

In regards to my "about:config" suggestion: The answer to your problem may not be here but, there are a bunch of settings on "mousewheel" in there.

Zero-Override · #11 7th February 2008, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllanPen

Mine is a Microsoft mouse but, I have used the same with a Logitech. First backup your xorg.conf. su -, password. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.bak. Then gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change your mouse part to:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "SampleRate" "800"
EndSection

This gives you the back and forward buttons. I don't know about other stuff.

this worked like a charm for me!!!

i don't mind the program view, end i never use the speedscroll!!

thanks a million

BenKrishman · #12 10th February 2008, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllanPen

Mine is a Microsoft mouse but, I have used the same with a Logitech. First backup your xorg.conf. su -, password. cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.bak. Then gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change your mouse part to:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "SampleRate" "800"
EndSection

This gives you the back and forward buttons. I don't know about other stuff.

I'm new to fedora, and linux in general. My only problem so far is that the back and forward buttons on my mx1000 don't work properly. I did what you said but they still don't work. Both the back and forward buttons act like a left mouse click. In my xorg.conf file my touchpad is listed(which I never use) should I remove the touchpad text and just leave what you have listed?

Also, the cruise buttons work, just not the back and forward.

Zero-Override · #13 11th February 2008, 05:46 AM

i think that if you change the Identifier to "Mouse1" you can just add it instead of replace it

that code worked like a charm for me

also, the middle mousebutton doesn't take me to a completly random site anymore

BenKrishman · #14 14th February 2008, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zero-Override

i think that if you change the Identifier to "Mouse1" you can just add it instead of replace it

that code worked like a charm for me

also, the middle mousebutton doesn't take me to a completly random site anymore

I've tried that and while the mouse works, the back and forward buttons do not. They both act like the left click.

Also, in my xorg.conf file it only shows my touchpad, and does not show another mouse. Here is what is in the file.

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Synaptics"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier "Mouse0"
	Driver "mouse"
	Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option "Buttons" "10"
	Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
	Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
	Option "Resolution" "800"
	Option "SampleRate" "800"
EndSection

BenKrishman · #15 17th February 2008, 07:42 PM

Does anyone have any ideas why I'm unable to get the back and forward buttons working properly?