Unable to find the space mouse

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Unable to find the space mouse

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Hi, have a problem

My FreeCAD is unable to find the space mouse. The menu tab says "No Spaceball Present". I have tried reinstalling freecad but it won't help. Anyone had the same problem?
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Re: Unable to find the space mouse

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Hi Kov_T,

we (3Dconnexion) do not have official information that FreeCAD supports our 3D mouse devices. See our list of supported applications.

However I did some research in the web and found it seems that FreeCAD has implemented the support for the SpaceNavigator using a third party driver which we do not support from our side. You will have to address this with the FreeCAD community.
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Re: Unable to find the space mouse

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Hi,

My computer cannot find my Spacemouse either.

When I run

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 lsusb
in terminal, it hangs until I unplug the Spacemouse. The same happens with

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strace lsusb
and on system start-up and shut-down.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.4.3 LTS with spacenavd. I tried also 3DxWare with no luck (hanged as well) but this might also be due to spacenavd being installed. Yesterday I found some instructions that I should have done something like this:

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 mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb 
(eg. here viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1388) but terminal tells me that the mount point does not exist.

Yet dmesg seems to find it:

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[ 2193.973887] usb 3-13.3: new low-speed USB device number 29 using xhci_hcd
[ 2194.062861] usb 3-13.3: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c62b
[ 2194.062867] usb 3-13.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2194.062870] usb 3-13.3: Product: SpaceMouse Pro
[ 2194.062873] usb 3-13.3: Manufacturer: 3Dconnexion
[ 2194.063116] usb 3-13.3: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes
[ 2194.063124] usb 3-13.3: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes
[ 2194.089863] input: 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-13/3-13.3/3-13.3:1.0/0003:046D:C62B.0005/input/input20
[ 2194.141118] hid-generic 0003:046D:C62B.0005: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.11 Multi-Axis Controller [3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro] on usb-0000:00:14.0-13.3/input0
[ 2206.514764] usb 3-13.3: USB disconnect, device number 29
But I don't know how to advance from here.

I've tried to use my Spacemouse on an older (about 7 yrs) Mac Pro but the led only flashes on start up and the device doesn't work. I managed to get it working (still without the led :? ) on Win XP that is bootcamped on the Mac but I wouldn't want to start using it because my Linux system is way newer.

I sent a support request on this matter yesterday and I apologize that I only now post here and have more information.
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Re: Unable to find the space mouse

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As I've tried to solve this problem I found out that the mounting-of-the-usb-devices -instruction has been deprecated since Ubuntu 13.04. The forum post does still point out that there might be other places where the same information might be found on a newer system but I'm not sure how to implement that.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/326597/ ... -in-ubuntu
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Re: Unable to find the space mouse

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Hello Animotor,

ubuntu is not a supported operating system. See here.

Additionally we do not support the 3rd party driver. You need to contact the provider of the driver for support with this.
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Re: Unable to find the space mouse

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The problem proved out to be hardware related and I've now received a new SpaceMouse Pro. Yay!

Before the issue was solved, the support person asked me to test the product on a supported system which was in my case a newest Windows version. This time the SpaceMous seemed to work first but then it started to jump on and off. The on-stages lasted always about 9 seconds but the off-stages grew 2-4 seconds longer on each round. After I reported this result to the support person, he instructed me to do a hardreset on the device but this didn't help. I will still post the resetting instructions here if it helps some one else. Although, I won't advice anyone to try this without consulting the support first.
Unplug the device from the USB port, then press and hold 2 buttons (it does not matter which buttons) and plug the device back into the USB port while still pressing 2 buttons.
Keep the buttons pressed for at least 10 seconds.
Then I was asked to provide proof of purchasing the product (to check the validity of warranty) and after that there were a couple of other steps before a new device was delivered on my door.
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