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Joe [Visitor] — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:28:53 +0000

It seems there's a new version of the MX-5500 mouse with the same vendor and product ID, but that communicates differently, and revoco hasn't been updated to work with it. It detects the MX-5500 and prints the warning about it being experimental, but ultimately doesn't work

At work, I have the previous version and it works great to change mode. But at home, I have the newer one, and it doesn't work. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with libusb to see immediately why it's failing. I do have several notes from a usbmon dump while using VirtualBox/XP to control the mouse, and have identified several features of both the keyboard and the mouse, in case anyone would like to take a stab at fixing revoco's support or writing an additional application for working with the keyboard. Feel free to contact me for the usbmon dump and notes.

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Stephen [Visitor] — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:17:13 +0000

I am completely new to Ubuntu 8.10

I got so far as to download and extract. I went to the directory I extracted it in, and typed "make". Now I have 2 new files: revoco, and revoco.o

What do I do next to get this working. Please help.

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Chris Ashton [Visitor] — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:25:47 +0000

Hi, I just got a MX Revolution as well. revoco worked a couple of times, but now it will not actually change the mode of the wheel. I can set free spinning mode, and revoco will report that's the mode if I query it, but the wheel is constantly in ratcheting mode. Has anyone else had revoco appear to be working on the software side but not actually do anything to the mouse?

PS This blog does not let me post a comment with my gmail address, thanks!

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WladyX [Visitor] — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:11:44 +0000

Hi,
I just bought a MX 5500 Logitech kit, it has a MX Revolution mouse connected with bluetooth, but revoco doesn't seem to work for me, i run it as root, it returns no error but the mouse behaviour does not change, i run revoco manual=6 or manual=13 but the middle button still is the one in control over the scroll mode.
Any sugestions/tips would be appreciated :)

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Sybren [Visitor] — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:50:44 +0000

For those who want to use wheel-click to toggle between free and click-for-click, you can use xmodmap to remap your middle click to another button. I use this in my ~/.Xmodmap:

pointer = 1 9 3 4 5 7 6 8 2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

This makes the "forward" thumb button a middle mouse button. I find this much easier to press than the wheel itself!

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Iain [Visitor] — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:08:10 +0000

Hi, and thanks for that fantastic info! This should be on the gentoo-wiki...

A few tips for using my MX Revolution:

1. I had to edit revoco-0.3.c and change:
#define MX_REVOLUTION to 0xc525 as my usb id is slightly different. (DrDrew: your problem? use `lsusb`)

2. The auto setting was a bit spastic by default - the solenoid was clicking on and off without even moving. This worked:
$ sudo revoco auto=10
(Froese - could this be your problem?)

3. setting the manual click change to button "6" (find button) gives me my middle click back *woot*
$ sudo revoco manual=6
and also gets rid of that annoying "search" keyevent which I have a keyboard for :)

4. ... But unfortunately, when I set the manual=6 option, the auto scroll feature turns off again :|

But that's a small price to pay! Thanks for finding and documenting this! Now I can show off to my friends :)

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john [Visitor] — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:12:58 +0000

Hi There!

Any chance you can make any tests with another bluetooth dongle?

cheers!

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betelgeuse [Member] — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:32:58 +0000

Well I doubt you can make it work with any other bt devices as the mouse for example lacks a connect button.