[ Frantisek Fuka added to CC ] On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > >> Nice. Does this mean I will be able to use the thumb-button of my M705 > >> mouse in the near future? > >> > >> (Someone asked the same question 1.5 years ago, but nothing happened > >> till then: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/11791 ) > > > > This is quite weird. I was going to say that it will work, but with > > the M705 I've got at home,this thumb button doesn't work at all > > (anything is emitted from the usb, even with this driver). > > But I'm pretty sure I made it work with the one I got at work. > > > > I'll give a try on Monday unless people at Logitech gave us the solution. > I got some information for you. Apparently, it won't be possible to > enable this thumb button right now. > To enable it, the Windows driver put the mouse in a kind of debug mode > that need to be handled properly, which is not the case as of today. > > I was able to make it work at home because there were different series > of M705, the latest sending the thumb button by default. Let me resurrect this 2 years old thread, as I have received multiple reports since then, stating that some revisions of M705 don't have working thumb button. Question mostly to the Logitech guys: Nestor, Olivier, could you please provide us with the sequence that needs to be sent to (certain revisisons of) M705 to let enter the debug mode, making the thumb button actually emit a USB message? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
