How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 19:04:48 UTC 2011
Hi all, first off I must confess that this is a crosspost. I posted a
similar question to the Debian list, but it's not getting very far and
I know that there are some smart folks here who could probably help.
I have a nice new mouse with two extra multimedia buttons. When I try
to get the scancodes with "xev", "xbindkeys -k", "showkey", or
"showkey -s" then I see no output. There are some other functional
keys on this mouse which also show no output with those tools, such as
the side scroll feature, so I suspect that there must be _some_ way to
get the codes.
Other than Xev, Xbindkeys, and Showkey, what tools can I use? I
specifically bought this mouse because of the location of the two
extra keys, as I have a manual disability and cannot use the special
keys of regular mice.
This is the rodent:
✈ganymede:~$ grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 15.197] (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 15.289] (II) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: Found 1
mouse buttons
[ 15.289] (II) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000:
Configuring as mouse
[ 15.292] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (/dev/input/event2)
[ 15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Applying
InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Applying
InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: always reports core events
[ 15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found 9 mouse buttons
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found relative axes
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found absolute axes
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found keys
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[ 15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Configuring as keyboard
[ 15.300] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: YAxisMapping:
buttons 4 and 5
[ 15.300] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse:
EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout:
200
[ 15.300] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse" (type: KEYBOARD)
[ 15.301] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: initialized for
relative axes.
[ 15.301] (WW) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: ignoring absolute axes.
[ 15.301] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
However, 10 of the 12 buttons work, not just the 9 that it found. I've
tried to google a picture of the mouse, I see no info on Teac mice
even on the Teac website. The buttons are "zoom" buttons that I
suppose are activated by a Windows driver on the OS that the package
states that it "supports".
Thanks in advance for any advice on how to continue!
--
Dotan Cohen
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