HOWTO revoco for Logitech mouse MX revolution and other

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HOWTO revoco for Logitech mouse MX revolution and other

Postby morgano » May 15th, '14, 16:44

Some high end logitech mouse have a scroll wheel that you can set spinning and it rotates for long time if brake is off.
But it also have a software controllable brake.

Pluggin in such mouse to a linux system, the mouse works but neither the brake nor clicking the scrollwheel as third button do not work.

Revoco is the program to install that both give you the third button, and automatic brake (if you want), i.e release brake on fast scroll, brake at low speed.
In a new folder do:
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$ wget http://maemo.cloud-7.de/mx-revolution/revoLUTIONconTROL/revoco.c
$ wget http://maemo.cloud-7.de/mx-revolution/revoLUTIONconTROL/Makefile
$ make
$ chmod +x revoco
$ su
# mv revoco /usr/bin
# revoco auto=10

Done, and working immediately :)
The number is the number of clicks in one motion before freespin unlocks.
It re-locks again after it stops.
Most importantly this gives back the middle mouse or mouse3 button.

list commands: # revoco

With thanks to original author: the bonobo of E. Toernig, and the guy who updated it and now host the file. (could not find a name)
- Very strange Logitech choose not to support their own products!
They do not even host this solution other have given the world for them!

http://maemo.cloud-7.de/mx-revolution/r ... boware.txt
http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/5 ... right.html


You can also set the extra buttons those mice have
I have not tried that yet

A few links on the matter:

mx5000-tools at http://maemo.cloud-7.de/mx-revolution/ (A way to get all mx files is wget -r -np http://maemo.cloud-7.de/mx-revolution/ )

http://ensourced.wordpress.com/2011/10/ ... se-button/
The file to edit/make to set your mouse as raw HID is probably /lib/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth-hid2hci.rules ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo ... Revolution
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