Logitech Mouse Driver Linux
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'Confucius say: man and mouse the same, both end up in pussy.'
Saitek Cyborg RAT7 Mouse
Have a mouse with plenty of buttons but some of them don't work under Linux ? Fear not, here's a not so simple tutorial on how to configure those extra buttons. But before we get to the configuration of the buttons proper, my RAT7 mouse had two problems: it's too fast even at its lowest dpi setting, and it doesn't even seem to click normally !
1 - Mouse identification
First, let's identify the mouse name and its id. We'll use this later:
Note: Some mice, such as those from Logitech, show up double: the first id is actually the mouse driver while the 2nd is a keyboard driver. It makes their configuration simpler, with all the buttons working out of the box on any OS (or that's the idea).
2 - Slowing down the mouse
The following command can slow down any mouse that goes too fast on Linux. Pc game emulator online. Play around with the '5' if the speed is not to your liking:
And in order to have it activated automatically, I set up the following script in ~/bin/SetMouse.sh:Don't forget to make it executable: $ chmod +x ~/bin/SetMouse.sh. The velocity scalling is optional.
And in KDE's [System settings][Startup and shutdown][Autostart] I add an entry in [Script file] pointing to that script. Done.
3 - Button identification
Run the following, then in the window that appears click with your various buttons and rotate you various wheels. Write down their numbers.
4 - Button removal
Apparently the RAT7 mouse has a 'mode' button with 3 configurations and one of them is always pressed, so it interferes with the other buttons. We'll simply remove it. As root, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add (or change) the following section in order to remove the 'buttons' 13, 14 and 15. You can also use this to switch button (for instance '3 2 1 4..' will invert left and right click):
You'll need to restart X or reboot before this comes into effect:
5 - Button configuration
We'll use a program that translate pressed buttons into various actions: imwheel. It takes two parts: assigning actions to buttons, and assigning things to do to those actions.
Edit the file /etc/X11/imwheel/startup.conf with the buttons you want imwheel to take care of (as root). It's not very clear but the various numbers correspond to the following actions, in order: Left, Right, Up, Down, Thumb1, Thumb2, ExtBt7, ExtBt8, ExtBt9.. A zero means imwheel doesn't act on this button (it lets the default X11 action). So here it basically mean that we let X11 handle the left/right buttons as well as the wheel, but we ask ImWheel to assign button 8 to action Thumb1, button 9 to action Thumb2, button 10 to action ExtBt7, etc..
Now configure the actions themselves in the file /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc (as root):
Here I have set the red thumb button to [Alt][Left arrow] (which goes back one page in Firefox), the thumb arrow buttons to Home/End and the thumb wheel to PageUp/PageDown so that it works in any application (which is what the 'none' means at the start of the lines).
Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
Here's another simpler example with the Logitech G9 Laser Mouse whose two sideways wheel buttons don't have default functions in KDE. Those are the actions you get when you wiggle the wheel to the left or right. Some of the above points are not necessary, such as modifying the xorg.conf file.
1 - Mouse identification
I have no idea why it shows twice..
2 - Slowing down the mouse
In [System settings][Startup and shutdown][Autostart] I add an entry in [Script file] pointing to that script. Done.
3 - Button identification
xev shows that the 2 buttons I want are # 11 and 12.
Skip step 4
5 - Button configuration
Update the file /etc/X11/imwheel/startup.conf to tell it to consider only button 11 and 12, and assign them to ExtBt7 and ExtBt8:
Now configure the button actions themselves in the file /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc (as root):
Here I have set the left wheel to [Back] in Firefox, and the right wheel to [Home].
Logitech USB Laser Mouse
Now even simpler, we only do the last two steps to assign the PageUp/PageDown to the two thumb buttons:
1 - Mouse identification (optional)
3 - Button identification
'xev grep button' shows that the 2 buttons I want are #8 and 9.
5 - Button configuration
Update the file /etc/X11/imwheel/startup.conf to tell it to consider only button 8 and 9, and assign them to Thumb1 and Thumb2:
Now configure the button actions themselves in the file ~/.imwheelrc (as normal user):
Start imwheel (or reboot) and you are set.
Key remapping: adding a 'menu' key
In KDE you can already redifine many keys from the [System settings][Input devices][Keyboard][Advanced] menu. But there's no option there for adding a 'Menu' key.
I recently got two laptops that don't have a menu key. You know, that key which is basically identical to a right click on the mouse. Very useful for instance when spellchecking. Here's how to assign it to another key.
- First determine the code of the key (the keycode) you want to use:
$ xev grep keysym
state 0x0, keycode 118 (keysym 0xff63, Insert), same_screen YES,
state 0x0, keycode 118 (keysym 0xff63, Insert), same_screen YES,
Here I pressed the Insert key and the code is, adequately, 'Insert'. - The look up the keysym for the menu key, here it's simply 'Menu'.
- Set it up: $ echo 'keysym Insert = Menu' >> ~/.Xmodmap
- Test it: $ xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap and now press the [Insert] key to see the right-click menu pop up.
- It should start on next login, but in case it doesn't, add the following to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:
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I've also developed (I am actually still improving) USB drivers for Linux. In my particular example, I've worked on the Sidewinder X4 and X6 driver support. There are actually 2 questions to ask yourself: do your functions fit into kernel space, or will you go for a complete user-space program. If going for a kernel driver (which also involves writing a patch and send it in for a review, which then needs to be approved), you should take a look at Linux source code. You can find HID driver source codes under drivers/hid (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/hid/). I've also written a kernel-space driver, which you can find here (https://github.com/tolga9009/hid-sidewinder).
Together with other Sidewinder X4 users, we have discussed about a driver. You can find that discussion (which might be valuable for you) here: (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543370). We've done some major errors, which you can avoid from the beginning. Going for a kernel driver, involves you to setup a virtual machine, in order to debug your code. It saves alot of headache, when you don't have to panic your main machine, but can securely reboot your virtual machine in case of a kernel panic.
Due to the design of my kernel-space driver, which needed it's own ABI (using sysfs) to talk to the device, my commit got denied. So I decided to make a user-space program, which is now called sidewinderd (Sidewinder Daemon). You can find the source code here: (https://github.com/tolga9009/sidewinderd). You have much more freedom in a user-space program, than you have in kernel-space. You can use whichever libraries you want, you can use whatever programming language you prefer (eventhough C or C++ should be used; but theoretically, yes, it's possible). What you basically need, are the following libraries:
1. hidraw - this is a kernel-space library, which will help you to communicate with your device, without detaching it from the kernel. This has only benefits over libusb, as you don't need to detach your device from hid-generic driver and therefore don't need to re-write all the HID stuff. You can concentrate on the extra functionality, like listening to keypresses and setting LEDs and stuff. Just look at sidewinderd, how I solve that part - it's really easy.
2. epoll - this will help you listening to keypresses. I assume, your mouse supports some extra buttons, which don't function at the moment. As long as they send out HID events, you can listen to these events and take specific action in your driver. Epoll will put your main loop into a 'sleep' state until something happens on your device node (lets say /dev/hidraw0), which will make your loop very power- and resource-efficient. That's very important, especially for mobile devices!
3. libudev - this will help you find the correct device, using VID and PID of your device. Attaching & detaching the device, or rebooting your computer might result in different device nodes. So, when you hardcode /dev/hidraw0 into your driver, this might be your keyboard on the next reboot, causing your program to crash (worst case). Again, take a look at sidewinderd. There is everything you need finding your device. Imho, the official documentation of libudev is not very beginner-friendly - you should still take a look, but most of the part, just read other programs and try to learn from them.
4. usbmon - eventhough this is not a library (it's actually a Linux module), it will greatly help you reverse engineering the Windows driver. This is how I reverse-engineer USB-related stuff: set up a Windows virtual machine using libvirt + QEMU + KVM, modprobe usbmon and use Wireshark to capture USB packets. When you write your driver and want to check, how 'your' driver communicates with your device, you can use usbmon + Wireshark again. So, your workflow stays pretty much the same. I prefer using this workflow over native Windows + proprietary USB analyzing tool.
I think that's for the basics. This will help you setting up your device under Linux and communicating with it. In sidewinderd, I've also added the functionality to read config files (using libconfig++) and recording & playing XML macro files (using tinyxml2 as XML parser). But that's extra stuff, which is not needed recognizing keypresses or setting LEDs.
If you're in the need for a book about Linux programming in general, take a look at (http://www.amazon.de/The-Linux-Programm … 593272200/) by Michael Kerrisk. Eventhough some topics are out-dated by now, it's still an invaluable book for a Linux programmer! If you're new to C, I would recommend learning C, before you buy that book. 'C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan' is pretty much the standard for learning C!
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Hope this helped you!
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Cheers,
Tolga
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