[Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 16:10, Shahar Dag <dag at 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

Hi Dotan,
What is your X.org version ?

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> To: "linux-il." <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>; "haifux." <haifux at 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!
>>
>> --
>> Dotan Cohen
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