Evdev + logitech mx510 + xorg patches

Question

I've been trying to get my Logitech Mx510 mouse (10 buttons) working for 2 weeks, on and off, and finally realized today that I would have to patch and rebuild XOrg to make it work.
I know what's required, and I know how to do it, but the technical parts are over my head (patch files confuse me to no end).
Would someone else be willing to help me out with this? I think that several people (fellow gamers?  ) could benefit from having a fully working 7+ button mouse.
Anyways, using the default XOrg PKGBUILD + new patches should work fine, but the Gentoo patches have to be re-written to work with Arch.
Gentoo xorg-evdev patches:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x … e-v3.patch
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x … d-v2.patch
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x … ouse.patch
All of those need to be rewritten in minor ways to patch Arch's more vanilla sources properly. Like I said, patch files confuse the hell out of me, so someone a bit more intelligent than myself who's willing to help will be my personal hero.  8)
Almost forgot to add a link to the original article that inspired to start all this: Get  all mouse buttons working.
Thank you.

Answer 1

No need to rewrite the Gentoo patches. Just apply the following patch to the the original xorg PKGBUILD:
$ patch -p0 -i xorg-evdev-pkgbuild.patch
Edit the patched PKGBUILD and comment out this line if you don't have a modern CPU with SSE support.
echo $'#define HasKatmaiSupport YESn' >>config/cf/host.def
xorg-evdev-pkgbuild.patch:
--- PKGBUILD.org 2005-03-15 12:27:47.000000000 +0100
+++ PKGBUILD 2005-03-15 11:18:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Maintainer: judd <[email protected]>
pkgname=xorg
pkgver=11R6.8.2
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=2my
pkgdesc="A fork of the XFree86 Project with a GPL-compatible license"
url="http://www.x.org"
depends=('glibc' 'freetype1' 'fontconfig' 'gcc' 'libpng')
@@ -13,11 +13,17 @@
install=x.install
source=(http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.x.org/pub/X${pkgver}/src-single/X${pkgver}-src.tar.bz2
http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz xdm.pam
- libGL.la xorg.sh vm86-tls.patch)
+ libGL.la xorg.sh vm86-tls.patch
+ http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/patchsets/6.8.2/patch/9000_all_6.7.99.2-lnx-evdev-core-v3.patch
+ http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/patchsets/6.8.2/patch/9001_all_4.3.0-lnx-evdev-keyboard-v2.patch
+ http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/patchsets/6.8.2/patch/9002_all_6.7.0-lnx-evdev-mouse.patch
+ http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/patchsets/6.8.2/patch/9010_all_6.7.99.1-logitech-ps2-plusplus-v2.patch)
md5sums=('8131cd7ea1e4566e6e05c438a93fcfe1' 'dcf6aa4d28f5c52acf2bb57f49f53089'
'419d6289ba6f851135f5c70c0e3cbec4' '6b4052cf6d50cbd2854ebd3409f02695'
- '4e052c5e16a17a99b02c6b64d10b1636' '0e34d03a727cd24519e0fc7f9374fa29')
+ '4e052c5e16a17a99b02c6b64d10b1636' '0e34d03a727cd24519e0fc7f9374fa29'
+ '3f6409aca9bda356b70f6d50d8dd5623' 'eaa2cfd047687ced295721982b81275e'
+ '3beb384ac87aeac0678a59fc49f2b520' '080a481ffc8ee6a327841e5679436c33')
+
build() {
cd $startdir/src
make FREETYPE_INCL=/usr/include/freetype || return 1
@@ -25,6 +31,11 @@
cd $startdir/src/xc
patch -Np0 -i ../vm86-tls.patch || return 1
+ patch -Np1 -i ../9000_all_6.7.99.2-lnx-evdev-core-v3.patch || return 1
+ patch -Np1 -i ../9001_all_4.3.0-lnx-evdev-keyboard-v2.patch || return 1
+ patch -Np1 -i ../9002_all_6.7.0-lnx-evdev-mouse.patch || return 1
+ patch -Np1 -i ../9010_all_6.7.99.1-logitech-ps2-plusplus-v2.patch || return 1
+
# build fixes
sed -i 's|$(HARDCOPYDIR)||g' doc/Imakefile || return 1
echo $"#define DefaultGcc2i386Opt $CFLAGS -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing" >config/cf/host.def
@@ -43,7 +54,7 @@
echo $'#define HasMTRRSupport YESn' >>config/cf/host.def
echo $'#define HasMMXSupport YESn' >>config/cf/host.def
# Katmai: PIII SSE instructions; 3DNow: AMD instructions
- #echo $'#define HasKatmaiSupport YESn' >>config/cf/host.def
+ echo $'#define HasKatmaiSupport YESn' >>config/cf/host.def
#echo $'#define Has3DNowSupport YESn' >>config/cf/host.def
make World || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install