Logitech V470 Bluetooth Mouse on FreeBSD ?

Hallo lists,

I'm considering buying Logitech V470 Bluetooth Mouse.
Does anyone have any experience with using this mouse on
FreeBSD please ?

Cheers,

Martin

PS: Please CC me as I'm not on the lists.
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Martin,

>  I'm considering buying Logitech V470 Bluetooth Mouse.
>  Does anyone have any experience with using this mouse
on FreeBSD please ?

chances are it will work. i personally never tried this
particular
model, but bluetooth mice from different manufacturers (for
example
apple and microsoft) are known to work.

thanks,
max
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Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Martin,
>
>   
>>  I'm considering buying Logitech V470 Bluetooth
Mouse.
>>  Does anyone have any experience with using this
mouse on FreeBSD please ?
>>     
>
> chances are it will work. i personally never tried this
particular
> model, but bluetooth mice from different manufacturers
(for example
> apple and microsoft) are known to work.
>
> thanks,
> max
>   

Hi Max,

I've just bought the mouse and it works, partially.
Well, I couldn't find anything in the handbook but google
helped.

However, the mouse has 4-way wheel but horizontal scrolling
doesn't work.
I've got the following in my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device"
"/dev/sysmouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6
7"
EndSection

Any ideas pls ?

Apart from that I noticed double clicks don't work in
console.

With regards,

Martin
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[...]

> > i have a wired usb apple mighty mouse here and
horizontal scrolling
> > does not work for me at all. quick look at ums(4)
showed that it does
> > not export w data (it tries to locate both wheel
and z axis, however
> > it does not look for ac_pan axis).
> >
> > so, it appears that we need to teach moused(8),
sysmouse(4) and mice
> > drivers about second wheel. it appears to be a
somewhat bigger chunk
> > of work.
>
>  The current situation seems to me not ideal and rather
complicated.  You
> said bthidd injects messages directly to kernel.  I
don't know what the
> consequences are but I noticed the following ... When I
run moused my BT
> mouse works in console (except double clicks etc.). 
Unfortunately, because
> I wanted extra functionality from my Synaptics touchpad
I installed
> x11-drivers/synaptics port which required disabling
moused which handled the
> touchpad as ps/2 mouse.  Now synaptics works great in
X11 but it doesn't
> work in console at all and my BT mouse doesn't work in
console either.  But
> if I plug in a USB mouse devd runs moused and suddenly
my BT mouse works in
> console too.  Funny but very inconvenient, I can tell
you.  Fortunately I
> don't work in console that much anymore.

freebsd offers something called sysmouse(4). it allows the
console and
the user process (such as xorg) to share the mouse. if you
use
sysmouse(4) in xorg - the mouse will be shared between both
console
and xorg. if you use specific mouse driver (such as ums(4))
you will
need to put /dev/ums0 in your xorg.conf and use appropriate
xorg mouse
driver. in the later case, the mouse will not be shared and
will not
work in the console.

bthidd(8) uses console ioctl's to feed bluetooth mouse
events into the
kernel (i.e. feed events to sysmouse(4)). this way we
automatically
share bluetooth mouse between console and xorg. however,
because
sysmouse(4) protocol lacks knowledge about all the fancy
buttons and
wheels we can not pass this data to xorg. basically we are
limited to
whatever sysmouse(4) protocol knows about.

currently, it is not possible to use bluetooth mouse
directly from
xorg/whatever, because there is no device node for it. in
other words,
there is no /dev/btmsX device node that feeds data in some
protocol to
consumers. i guess, it would be possible to write virtual
mouse vms(4)
driver (similar to virtual keyboard driver vkbd(4)) that
would simply
be used to pass through mouse data in, say, microsoft
protocol or
something like that. however, i think it would be better to
add
another level of operation to sysmouse(4) and change
protocol so it
can accommodate future extensions.

thanks,
max

>
>  With regards,
>
>  Martin
>
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