[PLUG] Emulating scroll wheel and middle button on Trackman Marble [RESOLVED]

Michael Barnes barnmichael at gmail.com
Tue May 30 16:35:00 UTC 2017


Happy to see this, sort of. I, too, am using a Trackman Marble, but I am
using it with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (yes, I know I need to upgrade.) Looking at
this fix, I went to xorg.conf and there is nothing. So, what does Ubuntu
use in place of xorg?

Thanks,
Michael


On May 30, 2017 06:42, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2017, Tom wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the rule (MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball") is not matching
> > your TrackBall thingy. If you have hwinfo in Slackware, run following
> > command to see what is your Mouse/Trackpad advertising: hwinfo --mouse
>
> Tom,
>
>    Bingo! I would have never thought of this. I had an entry for a
> SlackBuilds.org package, but no executable. Downloaded the current version
> of hwinfo (and the dependency of libx86emu), built and installed both, and
> ran 'hwinfo --mouse':
>
> [root at salmo ~]# hwinfo --mouse
> 42: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse
>    [Created at input.249]
>    Unique ID: AH6Q.bGO0sOimOM3
>    Hardware Class: mouse
>    Model: "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse"
>    Vendor: 0x0002
>    Device: 0x0006 "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse"
>    Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0025
>    Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0)
>    Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event3,
>    /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse,
>    / /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse, /dev/mouse
>    Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32)
>    Driver Info #0:
>      Buttons: 5
>      Wheels: 2
>      XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2
>      GPM Protocol: exps2
>    Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
>
>    Modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf's MatchProduct line to the
> model/device name and re-starting X allows the trackball to scroll (hold
> left little button, B, while rolling the marble) and paste highlighted text
> (press both small buttons, B and C, simultansiously). A bit awkward but
> I'll
> get used to it.
>
> Thanks very much for the lesson and the solution,
>
> Rich
>
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