Definitive MX700 Howto

kezzla · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:35 am Post subject: Definitive MX700 Howto

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE POST WORKING MX700 CONFIGS !!! I've read all the freaking mx700 posts...which start out like, well I don't have the mx700 but here's my config...ONLY POST IF YOU ACTUALLY OWN AND USE an MX700 please. NO posts of other forum links. Answers in this post only. To my knowledge there are EIGHT buttons. I use the ExplorerPS/2 protocol. Scrollwheel works fine, my thumb buttons DO NOT. I'm grasping at straws here. I emerged imwheel, which by its very name suggests it's not going to help with thumb buttons. Xmodmap is supposed to do this for me ?
Please fellow MX700 users, sound off !

A BIG TIA !!!

Admiral LSD · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 4:51 am Post subject:

I don't own an MX700 (yeah yeah, I know what you said but this is Linux, things are largely generic) but the hoops you need to jump through shouldn't be all that different to my Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. What I do for that is put:

herbo · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:36 am Post subject:

I do have an mx700 and Admiral LSD is pretty much spot on.

In Xorg.conf:

kezzla · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the configs, I'll try them ASAP

kezzla · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:01 am Post subject:

Silly question...
Do /etc/X11/Xmodmap and /etc/X11/imwheelrc have to be executable ?

herbo · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:18 am Post subject:

nah, just make sure world can read them though.

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

hmm ive tried some of your configs and i cant see any difference from the usability that my more simple config suplies.

for example, the thumb buttons, which i think are suppose to be back - forward in the browser, don't work that way.
the MX mouse have 8 buttons how come some of you come up with 9 buttons ?

lets take a look at it :
http://www.bit-tech.net/images/review/196/6.jpg

The button: "Program Switcher" who have this working the right way ? how ?

The thumb buttons: back & forward who have these working with Mozilla Firefox ? and how ?

The buttons Up & Down do the same as scrooling the wheel up & down which is faster and more convenient .... wierd.

anyone got it working correctly ?

a review here for ppl interested in buying one of these:
http://www.bit-tech.net/review/196/
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Admiral LSD · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:

As I mentioned in my post I don't actually own an MX700, I have a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer instead which does have 9 buttons (standard left and right, mouse wheel up and down, mouse wheel button, two thumb buttons and a two way tilt wheel). I posted my config since, apart from having to adjust for the number of buttons and their functions, it shouldn't be much different to what's required for an MX700.
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ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

right you have a MS mouse ... i just looked at the topic and assumed it was a MX 700 .. anyways ..

the "thumb buttons" are mapped as button3 for forward & button2 for backwards, now I think these buttons should be 6 & 7 ? and the switch applications should be the 8th button ? right ?

how can i change that ?
Ive been trying with the xmodmap thing but i never really used it and the more i try the worse it gets :roll:

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ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

ok i found some more stuff on the net and this is the closest I can get it to work like it would on Microsfot Windowz:

beastmaster · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 230

Hi everyone

I have a Logitech MX500 mouse, it's basically the same mouse as MX700 just without wireless.
I've tried all the setup guides from other threads to no avid too, and been reading over and over from head to toes, now I got the thumb buttoms to work however oddly it produces scroll-up and scroll-down events which shouldn't be. And the wheel-up and wheel-down buttons acts as scroll-left and scroll-right

... I don't get it...
Here are what I have in my configurations:

XF86config :

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

i found this one on the imwheel website:
http://www.glaurung.demon.co.uk/info/linux.mx500.howto.html

which doesn't work.

I think this is a lost cause.
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beastmaster · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 230

Hi ikaro, thanks for replying.
However I've followed that website, and it still does no good :cry:

with the change of imwheel -p -b "0067"
and in the imwheelrc
......
".*"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right

now, when I click the thumb buttons it acts as scrolling up and down; wheel buttons act as scrolling left and right

It should be opposite....
It's been another half day that I'm attemping to get the mouse forward and backward buttons to work, the worse beast ever :cry:

I know a lot of you who own MX500/700 say it works perfectly, ok

care to guide me thru where I did wrong and share your working codes/config files?

Thank you.

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

I got the MX 700 and everything _almost_ works.

I got to know today that a "Bug" in the 2.6.x kernels /drivers/input/mousedev.c makes a problem to mouses with many buttons ( MX 700 )

Like the one im experiencing, a mouse click triggers 2 actions.

anyways, with this config you get the thumb buttons working:

beastmaster · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 230

Hi ikaro,

thank you for the inputs.

your XF86Config's mouse session looks just like what I have, except the mouse resolution that I set it to 300.
This time, I'm going to do the old-fashioned way, rebooting the computer and see

Questions:
1) when you say you get your thumb buttons to work, does it work properly though? like can you trigger the web browsing backward and forward in Mozilla or any browser you use?

2) did you mean dropping the imwheelrc config file?
3) about the MX500/700 mouse bug in kernel driver, which mouse click triggers 2 actions? is there a website.

beastmaster · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 230

Ok, with all my configutation as in previous posts, I made a local home user's .xinitrc and drop the xmodmap mapping in there. Everything works great, wheel up and down functional, except the thumb buttons don't act properly, when I click on it, it move the cursor left/right in mozilla

I have these key binded in imwheelrc file also:

".*"
None, Down, Alt_L|Left
None, Up, Alt_L|Right

Is it really Up, Down for thumb events?

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

yes the thumb buttons work fine in Mozilla Firefox.
and with "drop the imwheel" i mean It's not needed, bloat. capiche ?
:lol:

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firephoto · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

No imwheel here, thumb buttons scroll left and right where needed, but I mostly mapped them so I can assign functions when playing AAO. I tried imwheel many times in the past but i never could get it working good without lots of quirks. Using a MX500 on the usb port.

There's a post in the Games forum about using the logitech_applet program for tweaking some settings.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=164679&highlight=logitechapplet

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

cool thanks for the tip.
i tried it, but can't really notice any difference.

Wellu · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

This is how I got my MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 working as I wanted :

/etc/X11/XF86Config :

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

beastmaster · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 230

hi ikaro,

now my .xinitrc only contain this line:

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

hmm thats wierd

you use firefox too ? and is the mouse connected to the USB ?
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