Perixx reprogrammable mouse

Perixx reprogrammable mouse

[Vincenzo Scotti]

Hello.
I just bought some new mouses from Perixx MX's series. They work out of the
box with usbhid, even though they don't have an official driver under Linux to
remap buttons, and online I couldn't find anything useful.
So I was planning as a spare time project to write some sort of driver.
I read that usbmon could be useful to understand the protocol, if using
something like a Virtualbox VM with Windows running on it.
Given that, would it be better to make the driver as a kernel module, or as a
userspace application? I couldn't find any reprogrammable mouse driver in the
kernel drivers directory.
I think that the more games will be ported to Linux, the more we'll need soon
to have some support for this gamers-equipment.

I hope you'll give me some hints.

Regards,
Vincenzo.

Re: Perixx reprogrammable mouse

[Antonio Ospite]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:59:51 +0200
Vincenzo Scotti <vinc94@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> I just bought some new mouses from Perixx MX's series. They work out of the
> box with usbhid, even though they don't have an official driver under Linux to
> remap buttons, and online I couldn't find anything useful.
> So I was planning as a spare time project to write some sort of driver.
> I read that usbmon could be useful to understand the protocol, if using
> something like a Virtualbox VM with Windows running on it.

usbmon + tshark for capture, and wireshark for analysis is the best way
I found.

> Given that, would it be better to make the driver as a kernel module, or as a
> userspace application? I couldn't find any reprogrammable mouse driver in the
> kernel drivers directory.

What features do the devices offer? Something like auto-fire, latch
mode and so on?

I guess a userspace command line tool (maybe based on libusb) + udev
hooks to load a stored configuration would be enough for a prototype.

If later you want to load per-user configurations automatically you may
end up writing your own daemon/applet using libudev.

> I think that the more games will be ported to Linux, the more we'll need soon
> to have some support for this gamers-equipment.
> 
> I hope you'll give me some hints.
> 

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

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