5/9/2023 0 Comments Osx usb overdriveO ffOO UUiF USB Overdrive X Overdrive / Joystick. But of course, your own mileage may vary. your universal driver because its functionality often surpasses the manufacturer's own Mac OS X drivers. USB Overdrive makes this kind of setup possible and is quite useful in practice. I still have eight button combinations free for other functionalities, but I've found that Exposé is for me by far the most important functionality to have directly on the mouse. Neat, isn't it? While I'm leaving the left button alone, the remaining three buttons now invoke the three Exposé functions and Dashboard (using three buttons without and one with the right button held down). For the now just four remaining buttons I now have four combinations each, however, and more: After enabling it in the Universal Access control panel and now being assigned to the right button, I can simply hold the right button and the scroll wheel will now zoom in and out. That means that I need to first press the right button and then the left button in addition (chord clicking, in a way) to get a context menu which sounds odd at first but which is actually easy to get used to. In the same vein, I changed the right mouse button to just key functionality. So at least in theory you now have one action button less (because the scroll wheel now only activates the key) but for the remaining buttons (five with my mouse) you now have two combinations each (with and without ). Since the scroll wheel button is now a modifier key, all other mouse buttons can now be combined with the scroll wheel button. Very neat and quite intuitive two-dimensional scrolling with just one scroll wheel! It doesn't stop there, though. That is where the scroll wheel's button comes in handy: I've assigned the scroll wheel button to the key, so without pressure the scroll wheel still goes up and down, but when I hold it down it goes left and right instead. You may have noticed that the scroll wheel normally can only scroll vertically, but you can hold the key to make the scroll wheel go horizontally instead. Not trying to spam, but since this thread matches my previous post a lot better, maybe some people might draw some ideas from it here: I'm using USB Overdrive to fully exploit the six-button Logitech mouse I'm using. I don't think they have changed that driver in a LONG time. The keyboard works! Then I loaded USB Overdrive and custom configured my mouse. What did I do? I figured out that I can remap the control, option, and command keys and I unloaded the LCC. On the Mac, I can't live without a command key. So, I had a really advanced mouse that was acting like a mighty mouse and I couldn't get rid of the LCC because of the keyboard. It wouldn't work however because the Logitech Driver recognized that it was a logitech mouse and wouldn't give control of it to any other driver. Found out that the G5 isn't supported by their driver at all, so I turned to USB Overdrive like you did. So I loaded the LCC and the keyboard all of a sudden worked, but the mouse still didn't at all. Hooked them both up to the mac and the mouse worked, but none of the buttons and the command key on the keyboard didn't work at all. I have a logitech elite keyboard and G5 mouse. I wonder how many of you guys that complain about choppiness and unstable Parallels, have USB Overdrive installed.I completely agree with you David. Without wanting to advertise, I found another much more modern mouse driver, that has no such problems, and Parallels works like a dream after that, even on extreme low memory conditions. Something goes very wrong between the ConnectUSB.kext that Parallels loads, and the USBOverdrive.kext. Trying to solve the issue I discovered that USB Overdrive is to blame in my case at least.Īfter I removed it, no more problems! I even stressed the system to the point of 200.000 pageouts and no physical memory left free, with 3 Parallels VMs loaded, all Adobe CS3 suite, Safari, iTunes playing, and everything was working, slow but steady.Īfter I closed the programs everything returned back to normal, where with USB Overdrive installed the general chopinness remained, especially in the Dock, until I restarted my Mac. Or the Dynamic Pager of OS X not being able to assign virtual memory swapspace,Īnd iTunes stuttering when playing music at the same time Parallels is loaded. This includes general lags, the dock becoming unresponsive and the dock bouncing choppy, early pageouts for no apparent reason,Īnd messages in system log like: IOHIDSystem: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow, Since 1999, Alessandro Levi Montalcini has developed this missing piece for Mac OS X and macOS that lets you bring nearly any USB device to a Mac and teach it to. I have noticed a lot of slowdowns and weird behaviour with Parallels and OS X, especially under low free memory conditions.
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