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- Subject: hal: Trackballs not described in fdi files, so do not workwith X
- From: ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:32:53 +0100
- Message-id: <20090916193253.13072.20823.reportbug@conquest3.conquest>
Package: hal
Version: 0.5.13-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The recent xorg-xserver releases would not work on any of my machines, all of which
use various Logitech trackballs. The following fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
fixed the problem:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!-- Logitech Marble Mouse USB, PN 804377-0000, connected to PS/2 port
or PN 810-000767, connected via USB
-->
<device>
<match key="info.product" string="ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Protocol" type="string">ExplorerPS/2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ButtonMapping" type="string">1 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">8</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">300</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
</match>
</device>
<!-- Logitech Marble Mouse USB, PN 804377-0000, connected via USB
-->
<device>
<match key="info.product" string="Logitech USB Trackball">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ButtonMapping" type="string">1 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">8</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">300</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
</match>
</device>
<!-- Logitech Marble FX, PN 804251-0000, PS2
-->
<device>
<match key="info.product" string="PS2++ Logitech Mouse">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">8</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">300</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
<!--
Logitech ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse, PN 804269-0000, Trackman Marble+
works with default settings, so needs no additional options here.
PS/2 Logitech TrackMan, Trackman Marble, PN 804122-0000 also needs
no special parameters (only 3 buttons)
-->
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Button mapping above:
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On the FX, the white buttons are just the usual 1-2-3. The small
red button gives 2-D (ie, X and Y axis scrolling) wheel emulation.
On the other 4 button models, if the buttons are counted physically from the left as 1-2-3-4,
then button 2 is the 2-D wheel emulation, and the corresponding logical functions
are 1-wheel-2-3.
Perhaps the above 2 paragraphs should be comments inside the file as documentation?
The above covers several logitech trackball variants.
(I have no connection with Logitech other than using some of their products.)
I think that this file should be included in hal (or maybe in hal-info) as one of the files
below /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/ so that these trackballs "just work". Feel free to pass
the file upstream if appropriate.
There are many reports of trouble with trackballs with hal and X on the web, and not all the
fixes offered seem to work. Above is tested and working with at least 3 different
variants on more than one machine.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc8 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii acl 2.2.48-1 Access control list utilities
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii consolekit 0.3.0-4 framework for defining and trackin
ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii hal-info 20090716-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii libblkid1 2.16-3 block device id library
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal-storage1 0.5.13-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal1 0.5.13-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libpolkit2 0.9-4 library for accessing PolicyKit
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii mount 2.16-3 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii pciutils 1:3.1.4-1 Linux PCI Utilities
ii policykit 0.9-4 framework for managing administrat
ii udev 0.141-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii usbutils 0.86-2 Linux USB utilities
Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii pm-utils 1.2.5-4 utilities and scripts for power ma
Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn gnome-device-manager <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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