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Logitech wireless mouse/trackball
To handle old (not Unifying Receiver) Logitech product:
sudo apt-get install lomoco
sudo lomoco -i
003.005: 046d:c508 Receiver for Cordless Optical TrackMan (C-BA4-MSE) Caps: CSR SMS Receiver type: C508 Mouse type: Cordless Optical TrackMan Connect button on mouse pressed: no Active RF Channel: 1 Battery status: 7 (full) Cordless security ID: 0x8e16 Receiver talking: yes Lock Request (CONNECT button pressed): no Mouse Powerup (First time out of the box auto-locking): no Receiver Unlocked (Mouse disconnected): no Wait Lock (Searching for mouse): no Device physical shape type: 0 SmartScroll (SMS): reporting not supported USB Mouse Polling Interval: 10ms
sudo lomoco --pid=C508 -i | grep -w "Battery status:"
For logitech devices there are additional packets: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logitech_Marble_Mouse
Change trackball pointer speed
Using CTM:
- /root/sc/logitech-set-sens.sh
#!/bin/bash xinput set-prop "Logitech USB Receiver" "libinput Accel Speed" 1 xinput set-prop "Logitech USB Receiver" "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" \ 2.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, \ 0.000000, 2.000000, 0.000000, \ 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Automatic speed change when device connected
dmesg 164704.769399] usb 1-6: new low-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [164704.931613] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c508, bcdDevice=15.00 [164704.931621] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [164704.931623] usb 1-6: Product: USB Receiver [164704.931625] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: Logitech [164704.937746] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/0003:046D:C508.0008/input/input21 [164704.997603] hid-generic 0003:046D:C508.0008: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:14.0-6/input0
udevadm info --attribute-walk --path /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:14.0/usb1/1-6/1-6\:1.0/0003\:046D\:C508.0008/input/input21 # or simply udevadm info --attribute-walk --path /dev/input/mouse0
looking at parent device '//devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-6': ATTRS{idProduct}=="c508" ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c508", SYMLINK+="trackman" ACTION=="add|change", \ SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c508", \ ENV{DISPLAY}=":0", \ ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/localuser/.Xauthority", \ RUN+="/root/sc/logitech-set-sens.sh"
udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger -s usb -a idProduct="c508"