Rodents (mice)

[Drew Van Zandt]

Update:  All buttons "work" except the search button still opens a file
search no matter what I do (even in xev).  Zoom buttons are not mapped to
zoom in firefox, however.  They do generate unique xev event messages,
though.  L/R tiltwheel works in firefox, as do back/forward buttons.

I used this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-399099.html

With one modification: I had to use /dev/input/event9, which I determined by
looking in /dev/input/by-id/.  Still not sure about the last tweak mentioned
in the forum link, a straight copy/paste did not work for me.

--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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