Comments on: Cordless Trackman Marble FX on Ubuntu Jaunty

By: buTTon

buTTon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:39:38 +0000

I can confirm this also works on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Just installed Karmic on my laptop and the trick worked just the same

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:18:10 +0000

Thanks for the info, it worked great with my Logitech Trackman Marble. I just wanted to remove the behaviour with Back+Forward on browser, and have middle-button as one of the buttons (I have 2 additional buttons on my Trackman).

I have karmic koala. So @martin, the method works, you just probably have to play a little with the button order. Hope you succeed.

By: buTTon

buTTon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:43:52 +0000

@martin
I don’t have Karmic Koala yet, maybe something changed (though not very likely). You could try to change some obvious settings (like changing the button-order) to make sure the file mouse-wheel.fdi is loaded. Did you check the logs/dmesg? And have you removed the old settings from xorg.conf (I did, maybe that could help).
IMHO there’s no real replacement for this trackball; buying a new one isn’t a real solution

By: martin

martin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:36:11 +0000

Thank you for the input! I have been looking for this. Unfortunately it does not work
on my ubuntu (karmic koala). The Button that should be emulating the wheel (Button Nr acts as a back button in my browser and does not scroll at all. It does not scroll in any other application neither….. I checked the Output of my hal-device and it prints out the ‘Logitech USB Receiver’. And the command ‘xec’ does confirm that the button Nr 8 is the correct one….

Any suggestion?

I would hate to buy an other trackball as this ones is my favourite…..

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:30:29 +0000

Thank you! Worked like a charm!

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By: Luc

Luc — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:00:32 +0000

Looking all over the place to buy one of those, mine doesn’t work anymore and wished I bought 5 of them myself

Can I buy one from you ?

Greetings Luc
luc@mook-dekker.nl