Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:26:57 +0800 Bruce Hill <bruce@slackwarebox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
>> presses down, and clicks left and right.  All seem to work fine, except
>> I don't use the latter as I haven't found any purpose for it although I
>> could possibly see it replacing ALT-Tab.  Nah... to confusing.
>> 
>> -a
>
> What settings do you use for all those events? I have a mouse with right/left
> buttons, scroll wheel that also tilts right/left, and two side buttons.
> Nothing works atm but regular right/left, scroll wheel to scroll and press to
> paste, and side buttons. So scroll wheel tilt does nothing.

Perhaps it does something and the app ignores it.
xev will settle that question.

Also, are you using the right driver.  I use xorg.conf and have
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Logitech MX1000"
    Driver         "evdev"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
EndSection

allan