[Software]How to configure USB mice?

[mathew2214]

i have a Logitech G600 and i cant get it to configure properly. Piper is just not working. everything keeps getting lost on reboot and/or mouse replug.
i go into piper. and i configure each of the buttons to act as the correct button number. i set button 14 to act as button 14 and so on. i set the resolution to what i desire, and i hit apply.
in this state, no application, not even evtest, can read the inputs 9 through 20. and after replugging, piper forgets all of my settings.

piper before replug:

and this is after replug or reboot:

what am i doing wrong here? how does one actually configure the settings on this mouse, if not via piper?

[kent_dorfman766]

a USB mouse must either follow the predefined USB driver class for HID or provide a custom driver. With all those buttons I'd expect it to need a custom driver.

You mentioned evtest doesn't see the upper button range. That makes me suspect even more that it needs a custom driver. I don't know what piper is.

[arid]

Since this only took a minute or two from my closer to 90 than 80 life...

Well, lookie here, it's that Synaptic thing again.

"Piper is a graphical user interface to configure gaming devices. Configuration
options include changing the resolution (DPI) of mice, adding and removing
profiles, setting LED colors and changing button behaviors."

Which leads us to: https://github.com/libratbag/piper.

Which leads to: libratbag/data/devices/logitech-g600.device

Which leads to my wanting one of those so I have more clicking options.

[stevepusser]

Perhaps it needs a backport of the current libratbag and piper in Bookworm for released Debian versions.

[mathew2214]

UPDATE: ive got all the top buttons and mouse tilt working fine. the thumb keys are a problem tho. evtest can see the correctly rebound thumb key inputs, but X11 cannot. confirmed by xev. turns out Piper is useless on this mouse. scancodes need to be mapped to keycodes. see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Map_sc ... o_keycodes

here is my /etc/udev/hwdb.d/69-custom.hwdb

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evdev:input:b*v046DpC24A*
#top button
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70010=btn_8
#mwheel tilting
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7000f=btn_right
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70015=btn_left
#thumb keys
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70059=key_macro1
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7005a=key_macro2
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7005b=key_macro3
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7005c=key_macro4
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7005d=key_macro5
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7005e=key_macro6
 KEYBOARD_KEY_7005f=key_macro7
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70060=key_macro8
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70061=key_macro9
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70062=key_macro10
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70005=key_macro11
 KEYBOARD_KEY_70004=key_macro12

i have confirmed X11 is using evdev for this mouse.
it seems X11 just will not read key_macro keycodes.
or its also possible key_macro might not even be getting sent to X11. I dont know how to tell.

very strange.

[mathew2214]

Which leads to my wanting one of those so I have more clicking options.

that's the idea that im going for. physically, i find the mouse quite comfortable to work with. if only i could figure out how to get X11 to read all the keys.