Logitech Elite Duo Keyboard and Mouse

[Joshua McKinney]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:14:15PM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Grant Morphett (grant at gmorph.com) wrote:
> > Anyone had any experience getting the Logitech Elite Duo wireless
> > keyboard and mouse working under linux.  I am 90% sure that they will
> > function as a normal keyboard and mouse when you plug em in and you
> > only need drivers for those 'extra' keys but if someone has got one or
> > tried one with linux I would be very interested to hear.
> 
> Hi Grant,
> 
> I have a Logitech Cordless Freedom Desktop Pro <insert more marketroid
> terms here> combo (mainly for the neato mouse).  Anyhow, its got the
> little base station with combo PS/2 and USB plugs, and the wireless
> mouse and keyboard.
> 
> I tempt fate and run both off NiMH batteries, get about a month or two
> out of them between charges.
> 
> Both are setup as USB devices (though the documentation cluelessly
> claims that the USB connector is only for laptops!) and function fine.
> XFree86 comes with some keyboard mappings for the extra keys for similar
> logitech models, so I simply configured XKB to use that model (logiinav
> iirc).  I got a bit of a shock first time I plugged it in, there's this
> extra scroll wheel on the left hand side of the keyboard, and the linux
> kernel had already mapped it to up and down arrow, so it was immediately
> useful to scroll through shell history ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Matt

I have the cordless freedom optical model, though it acts as two
ps/2 devices, and it works nicely on the Logitech Internet
Navigator Keyboard setting in KDE. The up / down keys as far as
I could determine are actually mapped at the keyboard to the
same scancode as the funky scroll wheel on the left hand side of
the keyboard, but have a 9ms key down / key up period.  I wish
there was a way of making it _not_ map to the up / down key, as
I can think of much better uses for it.

Josh

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