iMate USB-ADB and 10.4

I found this review which states:

For simple devices such as a keyboard or mouse, the lack of documentation isn't a problem, but if you want to support special features of more sophisticated devices, you need to download the iMate driver.

So perhaps it would work, and I could use USB Overdrive to activate (for example) the extra buttons on my Logitech trackball.

I have quite a few other ADB devices I would like to use, like a graphics tablet, so I'm still interested to hear anyone else's reports.

Found a couple more clues:

ADB Apple Extended Keyboard under Tiger

System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard -> Change Keyboard Type... -> ( in 'Keyboard Setup Assistant') Continue -> "<" -> ANSI (USA) -> Done

This gives you a working keyboard again. The setting doesn't persist a Fast User Switch though, but survives a sleep command.

So, basically rather use the ANSI instead of the ISO setting and you're fine.

It's not 100% perfect, but reasonable for me. Could probably be improved with some sort of AS or read-only system setting.

and ControllerMate

ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be as flexible as possible, to provide a set of basic programming tools, and to allow the user to combine those tools in an endless variety of ways.