Configuring my Marble Mouse

Gullible Jones · 2006-10-21 23:30:30

Just got a Logitech Marble Mouse trackball, since my A4Tech WWT-13 has really been acting up, and I'm really liking it. I'm having a bit of trouble configuring it though. Found some instructions on the Ubuntu forums, but they must be very outdated, because implementing the xorg.conf stuff didn't do anything. So I'm wondering if anyone here can tell me:

1. How do I get the scroll buttons working?

2. How do I make the evdev driver acknowledge Emulate3Buttons?

3. How do I set things up so that I can scroll with the trackball?

mitchell · 2006-10-21 23:39:29

This is in my xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "CorePointer"
    Option      "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
    Option      "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
    Option      "Buttons"       "7"
    Option      "ChordMiddle"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
    Option      "EmulateWheel"      "1"
    Option      "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Holding down the second button and moving the ball scrolls

Gullible Jones · 2006-10-22 00:35:30

Thanks, I'll see if that works!

Gullible Jones · 2006-10-22 02:30:38

Hmm. Not exactly what I had in mind, but it works. I'll have to mess with the settings a bit more...

To clarify, what I was thinking of:

- Up and down buttons scroll up and down.

- Left and right buttons simulate middle-click when pressed together, and allow the trackball to scroll when held down. (This is the functionality of the down button with the current setup.)

Not sure if this is possible with X.

Thanks for the configuration though, it works quite well.

adamk · 2006-12-06 02:58:39

> Simulate middle click ... and allow the trackball to scroll when held down.

You can't do that because the code isn't ordered to allow the emulate3 to do this.
Now I was able to setup the 2nd button to be a scroll button. I.e. hold down button 2
and the trackball now is a lightning fast Y (and X is possible) scroll wheel...

But I couldn't configure button 2 as a lock to scroll button (code order again.)
Maybe I'll play with this again. Scrolling with the trackball was great - X & Y were
very quick to move around...

nazgoul · 2006-12-09 00:19:36

Also got the Trackball and stumbled upon this links:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showp … 70&cat=441
and furthermore does dmesg also give me this when I connected it to USB insted of PS/2:
>>input: Logitech USB Trackball as /class/input/input3
>>input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Trackball] on usb-0000:02:01.0-1

I found it quite strange that it (dunno what yet) recognized the trackball.
And there are ofc also lomoco and lmctl.

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#1 2006-10-21 23:30:30

Configuring my Marble Mouse

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Re: Configuring my Marble Mouse

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Re: Configuring my Marble Mouse

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Re: Configuring my Marble Mouse

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