Re: [Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

[guy keren]

perhaps try to switch to a runlevel that does not have X window running.
it could be that the X window code is competing for these events - and
when you make tests, you don't want to have that.

--guy


On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:55 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:19, Yedidyah Bar-David
 linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote:
  I have no idea about the specific mouse or issue, but other places you
  can check are:
 
  1. Outside of X, do
  od -tx1 /dev/input/mice
  then press various buttons and see what happens.
 
 
 Interesting approach. In fact, even buttons that _do_ work did not
 reliably give any output. However, I could get absolutely zero output
 from the buttons in question.
 
 
  2. Try playing with acpi/acpid. E.g., from the examples of acpid
  - look at /usr/share/doc/acpid/examples/default{,.sh}
  (or at least that's where they are on my laptop - Debian Lenny).
  I personally managed to make Fn F7 move between internal/external
  monitor by playing with it and an example I once found on google -
  I think it was this one:
  http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Sample_Fn-F7_script
 
  I have no idea if you can get acpi events from normal keys (not Fn)
  and did not try this (yet?).
 
 
 Thanks, but I don't see how I could adapt that to a mouse. In any
 case, it would have to be after I get a scancode from the device
 buttons.
 



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Re: [Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

[Shahar Dag]

Hi dotan

This is from Ubunto, so it may not work for you

try xinput list to see if you get any useful data
(use xinput list | grep 'id=' to find mice id)

if you can get data, then you can use xinput set-button-map to try and set 
buttons


Shahar
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From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com

To: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il; haifux. hai...@haifux.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:44 AM
Subject: [Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work



Hi all, first off I must confess that this is a crosspost. I posted a
similar question to the Debian list, then to the Fedora list, but it's
not getting very far and I know that there are some smart folks here
who could probably help.

I have a nice new Teac OX-1100 mouse with two extra multimedia buttons
that supposedly perform the Zoom functions in Windows. When I try to
get the scancodes with xev, xbindkeys -k, showkey, or showkey
-s then I see no output. There are some other functional keys on this
mouse which also show no output with those tools, such as the side
scroll feature, so I suspect that there must be _some_ way to get the
codes.

Other than Xev, Xbindkeys, and Showkey, what tools can I use? I
specifically bought this mouse because of the location of the two
extra keys, as I have a manual disability and cannot use the special
keys of regular mice.

This is the rodent:
✈ganymede:~$ grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[15.197] (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
[15.289] (II) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: Found 1
mouse buttons
[15.289] (II) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000:
Configuring as mouse
[15.292] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (/dev/input/event2)
[15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Applying
InputClass evdev pointer catchall
[15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Applying
InputClass evdev keyboard catchall
[15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: always reports core 
events
[15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Device: 
/dev/input/event2

[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found 9 mouse buttons
[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found relative axes
[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found x and y relative 
axes

[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found absolute axes
[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found keys
[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Configuring as 
keyboard

[15.300] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: YAxisMapping:
buttons 4 and 5
[15.300] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse:
EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout:
200
[15.300] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (type: KEYBOARD)
[15.301] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: initialized for
relative axes.
[15.301] (WW) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: ignoring absolute 
axes.

[15.301] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)


However, 10 of the 12 buttons work, not just the 9 that it found. I've
tried to google a picture of the mouse, I see no info on Teac mice
even on the Teac website. The buttons are zoom buttons that I
suppose are activated by a Windows driver on the OS that the package
states that it supports.

Thanks in advance for any advice on how to continue!

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Dotan Cohen

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Re: [Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 16:19, Leon Romanovsky l...@leon.nu wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 16:10, Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il wrote:

 Hi dotan

 This is from Ubunto, so it may not work for you

 try xinput list to see if you get any useful data
 (use xinput list | grep 'id=' to find mice id)

 if you can get data, then you can use xinput set-button-map to try and set 
 buttons

 Shahar


Thanks, Shahar. For some reason I did not get your mail, I only see it
in the reply. Could you tell me to where it was addressed, I wonder
how much other mail I'm missing.

The mouse works, and does show up in xinput. Only the two Zoom buttons
do not work. I've tried remapping the buttons but nothing got any
output from those Zoom buttons.


 Hi Dotan,
 What is your X.org version ?


✈ganymede:~$ aptitude show xorg
Package: xorg
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:7.5+6ubuntu3

I also tried on a Debian Squeeze partition, I'm not sure what version
x.org was there but according to distrowatch it should have been
1.7.7.

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