Also asked this over on unix.stackexchange.com but haven’t received any responses so reposting here.
After numerous attempts I’m stumped trying to remap buttons on my new Elecom Hard trackball. I’m following these instructions for remapping with udev hwdb.
I’ve found my device:
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=056e Product=010c Version=0111
N: Name="ELECOM TrackBall Mouse HUGE TrackBall"
P: Phys=usb-0000:01:00.0-9.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-9/1-9.3/1-9.3:1.0/0003:056E:010C.0018/input/input33
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse1 event6
B: PROP=0
B: EV=10001f
B: KEY=306ff 0 0 483ffff17aff32d bfd4444600000000 ff0001 130c730b17c000 267bfad941dfed 9e168000004400 10000002
B: REL=1943
B: ABS=100000000
B: MSC=10
and written the hwdb.d config:
# cat /etc/udev/hwdb.d/70-elecom-remap.hwdb
# remap
evdev:input:b0003v056ep010c:*
KEYBOARD_KEY_90006=pageup
KEYBOARD_KEY_90007=pagedown
From the timestamp I can confirm that hwdb.bin is bring recreated. And the bin file changes in size when I remove my extra config so it seems like it’s picking up the config on disk:
[root]# ls -l /etc/udev/
total 23548
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 12053575 Dec 9 15:33 hwdb.bin
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 12053726 Dec 9 15:33 hwdb.bin-with-remaps
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Dec 9 15:33 hwdb.d
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Nov 9 03:26 rules.d
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 305 Nov 8 09:00 udev.conf
But… the buttons don’t work. I’ve tried various combinations of systemd-hwdb update; udevadm trigger. I’ve even tried unplugging and replugging the USB cable.
systemd-hwdw sees the configuration:
$ systemd-hwdb query "evdev:input:b0003v056ep010c:*"
KEYBOARD_KEY_90006=pageup
KEYBOARD_KEY_90007=pagedown
but udev does not:
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-9/1-9.3/1-9.3:1.0/0003:056E:010C.0018/input/input33/event6
M: event6
R: 6
U: input
D: c 13:70
N: input/event6
L: 0
S: input/by-id/usb-ELECOM_TrackBall_Mouse_HUGE_TrackBall-event-mouse
S: input/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:9.3:1.0-event-mouse
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-9/1-9.3/1-9.3:1.0/0003:056E:010C.0018/input/input33/event6
E: DEVNAME=/dev/input/event6
E: MAJOR=13
E: MINOR=70
E: SUBSYSTEM=input
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=61666981523
E: ID_INPUT=1
E: ID_INPUT_MOUSE=1
E: ID_INPUT_KEY=1
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_MODEL=HUGE_TrackBall
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=HUGE\x20TrackBall
E: ID_MODEL_ID=010c
E: ID_SERIAL=ELECOM_TrackBall_Mouse_HUGE_TrackBall
E: ID_VENDOR=ELECOM_TrackBall_Mouse
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=ELECOM\x20TrackBall\x20Mouse
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=056e
E: ID_REVISION=0110
E: ID_TYPE=hid
E: ID_USB_MODEL=HUGE_TrackBall
E: ID_USB_MODEL_ENC=HUGE\x20TrackBall
E: ID_USB_MODEL_ID=010c
E: ID_USB_SERIAL=ELECOM_TrackBall_Mouse_HUGE_TrackBall
E: ID_USB_VENDOR=ELECOM_TrackBall_Mouse
E: ID_USB_VENDOR_ENC=ELECOM\x20TrackBall\x20Mouse
E: ID_USB_VENDOR_ID=056e
E: ID_USB_REVISION=0110
E: ID_USB_TYPE=hid
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:030102:
E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00
E: ID_USB_DRIVER=usbhid
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:9.3:1.0
E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_01_00_0-usb-0_9_3_1_0
E: ID_INPUT_TRACKBALL=1
E: LIBINPUT_DEVICE_GROUP=3/56e/10c:usb-0000:01:00.0-9
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/input/by-id/usb-ELECOM_TrackBall_Mouse_HUGE_TrackBall-event-mouse /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:9.3:1.0-event-mouse
E: TAGS=:power-switch:
E: CURRENT_TAGS=:power-switch:
I’m not sure how to debug this further. In case it’s helpful, I’m using Fedora 37 with Gnome/Wayland.
Thx in advance!