mmm yes but the horizontal scroll on a seveninchesdisplay is a smart tool and, i bougth vx yesterday, i cannot accept to have an half mouse at a duble price

I have been seriously considering getting an EEE for some time now and have been skimming the forums on everything from grafting a 1.8" to the mobo to SDHC problems to different OS installations and now this. This info is fascinating to me guys, thanks for all of it. Sorry the off topic babble.

I would like to use this mouse(i have researched it before:) with linux but if this thing can't be mastered thats a problem, something so simple that would make web surfing much more efficient. I guess just booting from XP on an external hard drive would be OK. But man am I sick of Windows.

yes the modify to xorg.conf make the tilt buttons availables

if it works then can someone add the steps to the wiki?

The main reason I wanted to program the extra buttons on the VX Nano was for sideways scrolling.  That may be easier than I thought:

HOWTO: Logitech MX Revolution in Dapper - Ubuntu Forums
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277388
Note created December 4, 2007
12/4/07
Mouse wheel tilt for horizontal scrolling
This tip is used to switch the mouse wheel tilt function to horizontal scroll in Firefox. Thanks to knn for suggesting this tip.

1. Go to about:config by typing "about:config" in the URL field of Firefox.

2. Set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action "Value" field to 0. NOTE: If you've swapped the wheel tilt buttons as described in the "Switch mouse wheel tilt functions" tip above, the direction will be reversed. In this case, change mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines "Value" to 1.

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got this info from a link tek43 provided.  thanks tek43!

First of all :Sorry for the bad english!
If you watch you can see a long text but it isn't a long work..if works
Please someone of you try/test this and confirm that it works.
This is what i have done to have a vx working (untill i don't find new problem (maybe not) )

First :
ctrl+alt+t

 sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev 
   cd /etc/X11/
   cp xorg.conf xorgb.conf
   cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I search for this :

   I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c521 Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
H: Handlers=mouse1 event6
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143

and wrote on a piceofpaper    event6 (H: Handlers=mouse1 event6)

Then :
ctrl+alt+t
     

cd /etc/X11/
     sudo nano xorg.conf

here i change :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xandros"
    Screen      0  "Screen1"
    InputDevice    "keyboard"
    InputDevice    "mouse"
    InputDevice    "synaptics" 
EndSection

TO :

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xandros"
    Screen      0  "Screen1"
    InputDevice    "keyboard"
    InputDevice    "mouse"
    InputDevice    "synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

The mouse section from :
   

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "CorePointer"
EndSection

TO :

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "mouse"
    Driver      "evdev"
         Option        "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
    Option        "Protocol" "evdev"
    Option        "Buttons" "9"
      Option        "SendCoreEvents"
         Option "HWHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6"
EndSection

I put a # in front of

Option      "SendCoreEvents"   "yes"

under the input device synaptic

Now all my buttons works and if i unplug the receiver all work fine.

Then i set the left 2 buttons using  xbindkeys:

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys

and i put :

"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Left]""
  m:0x10 + b:9
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Right]""
  m:0x10 + b:10

into .xbindkeysrc file created in /home/user/
I don-t know if it still works for you, i hope so.

PS: if some problem occurs and the SO don't want to restart do this:
on booting(on the first screen) press f9, in the new screen select normal boot , and press "e"
on the next screen select line starting with "kernel" and press "e"
at the end of the line write XANDROSBOOTDEBUG=y, press enter
press "b"
Here type :

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt-user
cd /mnt-user/etc/X11
rm xorg.conf
cp xorgb.conf xorg.conf
exit

enter

And you are at the start point...

Last edited by tek43 (2007-12-06 1:39:31 pm)

RobF228 wrote:

My VX Nano works fine (no hacks, no editing of config files, no attempt to side scroll yet, etc.), except that when I unplug the USB dongle, the touchpad no longer functions.

That's strange.  I just received my vx nano and haven't changed xorg.conf yet either.  My eee's touchpad keeps working properly even after unplugging the dongle.

Sorry I don't have any good advice. 

A big Thank You to tek43 for posting all the info on getting the VX nano fully operational!!! 

I did find a few omitted steps and a couple of things needed to be changed to get it working properly for me.  I also determined that a couple of the changes weren't necessary.

I'll be posting a how-to page on the wiki soon, but for those who can't wait, follow tek43's advice in post #36 above, but:

- the evdev package is already installed (no need to apt-get it)
- you don't need to know the event # from /proc/bus/input/devices, but you do need the name, which for this mouse should never change
- the synaptics line in the ServerLayout section doesn't need CorePointer
- it's a good idea to add another InputDevice line in that section specifically for the vx nano
- if you do that, you'll need to add a new InputDevice section for the vx nano instead of altering the existing mouse section
- in the InputDevice section for the vx nano, instead of the option device line, use an option name line with the name reported in /proc/bus/input devices: "Logitech USB Receiver".  this way even if you have different usb devices plugged in at boot (or other times) the new vx nano settings will still work.
- don't comment out the SendCoreEvents line in the synaptics section (doing so caused the touchpad to not work, even if CorePointer is added to the synaptics line in the ServerLayout section)
- to get the 2 small left buttons to work, three things must be done differently:
    1. you do need to apt-get install xbindkeys, but you'll also need xvkbd !
    2. in the code for the .xbindkeysrc file, change m:0x10 to m:0x00 in both places, and change b:10 to b:8 (there's no button 10)
    3. finally, you need to run xbindkeys when X starts.  I did it by adding a symbolic link to xbindkeys in ~/.kde/Autostart

OK, so that's a lot of "stuff" in addition to tek43's instructions, which is why a wiki how-to is forthcoming.

imabuddha wrote:

A big Thank You to tek43 for posting all the info on getting the VX nano fully operational!!! 

I did find a few omitted steps and a couple of things needed to be changed to get it working properly for me.  I also determined that a couple of the changes weren't necessary.

I'll be posting a how-to page on the wiki soon, but for those who can't wait, follow tek43's advice in post #36 above, but:

- the evdev package is already installed (no need to apt-get it)
- you don't need to know the event # from /proc/bus/input/devices, but you do need the name, which for this mouse should never change
- the synaptics line in the ServerLayout section doesn't need CorePointer
- it's a good idea to add another InputDevice line in that section specifically for the vx nano
- if you do that, you'll need to add a new InputDevice section for the vx nano instead of altering the existing mouse section
- in the InputDevice section for the vx nano, instead of the option device line, use an option name line with the name reported in /proc/bus/input devices: "Logitech USB Receiver".  this way even if you have different usb devices plugged in at boot (or other times) the new vx nano settings will still work.
- don't comment out the SendCoreEvents line in the synaptics section (doing so caused the touchpad to not work, even if CorePointer is added to the synaptics line in the ServerLayout section)
- to get the 2 small left buttons to work, three things must be done differently:
    1. you do need to apt-get install xbindkeys, but you'll also need xvkbd !
    2. in the code for the .xbindkeysrc file, change m:0x10 to m:0x00 in both places, and change b:10 to b:8 (there's no button 10)
    3. finally, you need to run xbindkeys when X starts.  I did it by adding a symbolic link to xbindkeys in ~/.kde/Autostart

OK, so that's a lot of "stuff" in addition to tek43's instructions, which is why a wiki how-to is forthcoming.

A zillion thanks for that pending wiki how-to!  If you have Paypal I'll donate in thanks!

ohyes wrote:

A zillion thanks for that pending wiki how-to!  If you have Paypal I'll donate in thanks!

I hope it helps you! (and everyone else)  I have paypal, and while I can always use more $, consider it an early holiday gift.

I've learned a lot from others on this forum/wiki, and I'm just trying to give a little back.

As promised, here's the wiki: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/configure_logitech_vx_nano

Let me know if it doesn't work, or even better update the wiki if you know how to improve it!

When I use the instructions in the Wiki, and put in

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xvkbd

I get back:

E: Couldn't find package xbindkeys

Can anyone help me with this?

thanks

silent e wrote:

imabuddha wrote:

As promised, here's the wiki: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/configure_logitech_vx_nano

Let me know if it doesn't work, or even better update the wiki if you know how to improve it!

I am working to try to have the horizontal scroll and back/forward buttons work in Easy Mode and will report when I make progress.  In the meantime, if anyone has made both items work in Easy Mode, please let me know.

I got both the horizontal scroll and the back/forward buttons of my VX Nano working in Firefox in Easy Mode!

To get the buttons to work, above and beyond the steps listed in the VX Nano Wiki Entry, do the following steps:

1) Add an entry for xbindkeys to an .icewm startup file using the "Easy Mode" instructions listed in the Running a script at startup Wiki Entry.  Note:  I had success by making my entry xbindkeys (it didn't work using /etc/bin/xbindkeys) 

My .icewm/startup file has 2 lines and looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
xbindkeys


then

2) Make sure to change the about:config file in Firefox using the steps outlined in post #34 of this thread.  In addition to setting the mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action "Value" field to 0 and the  mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines "Value" to 1, I find the horizontal scrolling action to be more precise if I also change the mousewheel.horizscroll.withmetakey.numlines "Value" to 1.