Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 on Linux

This wireless set seems to consist of a Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 and a wireless version of the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. So information here may (or may not) apply to those devices too.

There is not much special about this hardware on Linux. Just plug the receiver into a USB port and both the keyboard and the mouse should mostly work. There are some things which don't work:

• None of the non-standard keyboard keys work. Linux should support most of them from version 2.6.24, but I haven't tried it yet.
• Mouse scroll wheel doesn't emit any events for its left and right directions. It seems the mouse works for some users completely. I wasn't successful to get the left+right events work, but I didn't try very hard.

Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Last modified: 2008-01-24 18:03 UTC.