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Logitech Mini Boombox on Linux (August 21, 2012)

Two of my friends gave me the Logitech Mini Boombox for my birthday. While it can be used with a plain old jack cable, it also supports Bluetooth. I don’t have a smartphone, but my laptop has Bluetooth support, so lets try it out, shall we?

First, we have of course to install all the required software packages. On Archlinux that was all pulled in by installing the bluedevil package. We could now theoretically start Bluetooth already and connect to the device, but lets fix a problem first: Pulseaudio integration: See this Gentoo wiki page, essentially you have to add a Enable=Socket line to the [General] section of your /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf file.

Now, start Bluetooth via /etc/rc.d/bluetooth start 1 and head over to the Bluetooth section in systemsettings. There you should be able to connect to the Boombox using “Add device”. Once that’s done, go to the Multimedia section in systemsettings and prefer the new boombox audio device over your built-in hardware devices. Then, don’t forget to go to the “Audio Hardware Setup” tab, select the Boombox in the “Sound Card” combobox and finally choose the “High Fidelity Playback (A2DP)” profile. If you don’t do that, the audio quality will be abysmal!

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Setting up your MX1000 for Linux (September 02, 2006)

After the scrolling wheel of my old Typhoon mouse went crazy (I think because of a loose contact) I bought a Logitech MX1000. A very nice mouse with superior surface detection which made a mouse pad unnecessary for me. If you’re in my position you have a mouse with tons of buttons and want to use them all. This is how I did it:

Programs

You’ll need the following programs:

  1. xbindkeys: for remaping button events
  2. xvkbd: used to send specific keyboard events
  3. xmacro: used to send specific mouse events
  4. kompose: a program for the “Application-Switch” button
  5. lmctl: for disabling cruise control Download and install those programs, Ubuntu users will find most of them in the repositories.

Xorg.conf

Follow the instructions of this wiki article, it worked like a charm for me. If you have done what stands there, logout of KDE / Gnome and restart X to see if it works.

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