Rodents (mice)

[Drew Van Zandt]

I am exceedingly happy with my Logitech VX Revolution cordless.  It uses a
single AA for power, that lasts some indeterminate number of months (I don't
keep track, it's not often enough to irritate me.)  The scroll wheel just
works, as both a scroll wheel and a middle button, I just reinstalled on a
new hard drive *yesterday* so I haven't fiddled with any settings yet.  The
"search" button brings up a file search, not what I expected but if it does
something I expect it's remappable.  The Forward/Back buttons seem to show
as duplicates of middle and right button in xev.  The L/R tilt of the wheel
does not generate an X event with the default driver, nor do the zoom in/out
functions.

I'm playing with stuff I googled now, though, and will report back.  Others
seem to have gotten it working 100% and posted results.

--DTVZ

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
>  It seems all my stuff is falling apart at once.  My Logitech
> MouseMan Optical Dual, after roughly eight years of faithful service,
> is exhibiting wear in the middle button (scroll wheel).  (It is
> occasionally but with increasing frequency sending multiple "clicks"
> per press.)  The problem with hanging on to hardware forever is that
> one has no idea what's current when it comes time to replace it.
>
>  I'm probably going to buy some sort of feeping creature, with with
> ten or so buttons, adjustable DPI, 2-axis scroll wheel, staple
> remover, etc., but I'm wondering if it's possible these days to get
> all those features to work under Linux without writing your own device
> driver?  Is it too much to hope for that it "just works" in a
> fast-moving distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora?
>
>  I weakly attempted Googling but found a brazilian hits.  I'm hoping
> someone here knows the answers already and can spare me yet another
> research project.  :-)
>
> -- Ben
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