Logitech Marble Mouse USB

[the_crowbar]

Hello all,

I have been trying to get a new Logitech trackball working. I have had an older one since something like 2000 or so. The new trackball has the addition of two extra scroll buttons. Here is a link to a picture http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=6&CONTENTID=5003&countryid=19&languageid=1
I am unable to get the scroll buttons to "scroll."
When looking at the mouse the two large buttons map to button 1 and 3. The left scroll button maps to button 2 and the right scroll button maps to button 3 just like the large button. I have been unable to get X to recognize each button as separate.
Here is the relavent section of my XF86Config-4 file:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

If anyone has any ideas on what I am missing please advice.

Thanks,
James

[CheshireCat]

You'll probably need to set the "buttons" option to the number of buttons (add 2 to that count for the scroll wheel). Also, ZAxisMapping AFAIK must always map to the two highest buttons. If you have a scroll wheel, normal left/middle/right buttons, and 2 extra scroll buttons, you should set buttons to 7 and zaxismapping to "6 7". You will then need to use xmodmap to remap the buttons. Add something like this to your Xsetup:

[fernandotcl]

Try opening a terminal, and executing xev. Adjust XF86Config according to the output of scrolling down and up each scroll.

[the_crowbar]

The trackball ( mouse is only a part of the name) has four buttons. It has two large normal left/right click buttons and two smaller "scroll buttons" instead of a scroll wheel.

If I open an xterm and execute xev it says that the large buttons are 1 and 3. The smaller scroll buttons map to 2 and 3. So I can get mouse buttons 1, 2, 3, and 3 from the trackball.

Does anyone have any idea how to tell if the mouse is indeed sending the same signal when the large button (3) and the scroll button (3) are pressed?

Thanks,
James

[Andersson]

Seven months later, odds are you've solved the problem yourself or returned the trackball to the store But this is a great trackball, other people will buy it and hopefully search the archives, so here's a working configuration (with an optional wheel emulation setting).

By the way, I think the duplicate buttons problem is caused by using the wrong protocol. I use "auto" and it works fine.

This configuration isn't perfect, there are a few things I need some help with: If the small buttons are used for scrolling, it would be great to be able to keep them pressed for constant scrolling (instead of having to click for each line scrolled).

The wheel emulation is a little too jerky when scrolling. It could need some tweaking as well. I may edit this post later when I've used the trackball for a while.

I use the PS2 connection, not the usb one, I don't know if the configuration would be different. Also, note that I changed the Identifier variable to MarbleMouse. You should edit the ServerLayout section to make this the default pointer or change the identifier back to mouse0. Anyway, here goes:

[jpalko]

How about if the mouse is connected via PS/2?

Personally I seem to be able to get only 3 mouse buttons out of the Logitech® Cordless TrackMan® Optical when attaching it to PS/2 via my KVM.

Setting of Auto in Protocol makes this work and not bug out on KVM display change, but it also causes this in Xorg.0.log

[altorus]

I have a working config for the cordless trackman optical. Very nice trackball, and thanks for the marble mouse solution (my old lady uses one of those)

Anyway, for the cordlesS:

[Chickpea]

[zaiyon]

Hi, I am using this Marble Mouse.

I tried all the suggestions of this thread for my mouse. If I set Protocol to "auto", only the large keys show up in xev, if I choose the mouseman protocol, it acts like this:
the large left key is button 1, the tiny left key is button 2, the large right key is button 3 and the tiny right key is also button 3. Putting the two large keys together is button 2.
Sounds just like the_crowbar's problems.

So the Protocol "auto" doesn't fit my needs. The mouse reacts exactly the same way with or without the ps/2 connector.

I fooled around a lot, but cannot figure it out. This is InputDevice Section:

[jpalko]

Well, that 3 button issue that I had was solved thus that I stopped using my KVM...

I had some small changes with monitors and now got 2 nice flat screens. I can move these babies around much easier than that previous 19" CRT.
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Jukka Palko
Piispanristi, Finland
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[zaiyon]

Well, I solved it.
I had to add:

[zaiyon]

Another resurrection for this zombie thread.

I upgraded to xorg 7, and now my marble mouse seems to be messed up. I didn't change my mouse configuration, here it is again:

[davidgurvich]

Same problem solved in this post
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-455793-highlight-trackball.html

[JohnY]

I have the same model Marble. When I changed to Xorg 7 modular scrolling was messed up. Button def seems to change as the mouse is configured. This is the config that works for me.

[pa4wdh]

Hi,

Sorry for picking up this old thread (again). I recently bought a Logitech Mable Mouse (partly because of the information in this thread ), and i thought my configuration was worth sharing with you.

I use the trackball left-handed, and i use the right small button as a "middle" button on a normal mouse, and the left small for scrolling down (this seemed the most usefull for web browsing).

My XFree86 4.0.2 config (I know, this is really old ):