Spaceball 4000 FLX (USB Version)
 

Ok, googled around for a howto and such but could not find anything that was of help. Ended up with a driver from 3dconnexion but there is no readme or such with it. Not really sure what to do with it.

I'm guessing a change will be needed to /etc/XF86Config-4, again I dont know what that would be. All the example I have seen deal with a serial and I have a USB type. Devfs does add a hid when I plug the thing (but there is nothing below it) in so I know that much is working.

This Mandrkae 9.1 on a dual PIII 1G system. The mobo is an SGI.

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Link to the driver from 3dconnexion, I'll figure out how to compile it, shouldn't be hard.

Cheers,

Finegan

I downloaded the file, its in archaic "compress" format, so to unpack it:

uncompress filename.tar.Z
tar xvf filename.tar

This leaves one little file, xdriver, its a stripped binary, I don't even know how this thing works, but from reading their crappy page its not exactly a driver, but an executable that recognizes the mouse... you just shell it, so basically, get X running and then open a shell and:

./xdriver

I assume you can put it anywhere and put it at the end of whatever script starts Xwindows...

Cheers,

Finegan

Yes their web page is not very helpful. Archaic is right. I had to download ncompress from rpmfind (was not on the install disks).At least they provide something.

Ok, got uncompressed and X running. Doing ./xdriver gives an error about libXm.so.3 not being found. Googling around seems I need openmotif version 2.2.2 to get libXm.so.3. Well I could only find it at Mandrakes Club. so I ended up at openmotif.org.

Alright got that done. Type in ./xdriver and it brings up the first time confiuration stuff. Boo hoo though, it only recognizes serial devices (ttyS0 and S1). Thing is the KDE Control Center shows it correctly in the Infromation>USB devices.

Thought maybe creating a symlink to ttyS2 but I cannot seem to find the spaceball in /dev. Hmmmmm.