Intellimouse...
Rich Edelman
edelman at speedscript.com
Fri Dec 27 17:36:13 CST 2002
Make sure your XF86Config file looks like this for your mouse:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
and then you'll need to remap pointer buttons with xmodmap, so doing this
should work for that:
xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5'
This is the only way I could get all 7 buttons to work... (the small grey
button on the side shows up as button 7 while the big one shows up as button
6). I snagged it from a help file on xfree86.org looong ago.
Refer to http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/mouse5.html and
http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/mouse6.html for examples and such :)
Oh, I have the mouse hooked up via PS/2. If you have yours hooked up via usb,
change the Protocol to "usb" instead of "ExplorerPS/2" and you may still have
to work some xmodmap magic. According to the documentation, the side buttons
are recognized as 4 and 5, so you really shouldn't need the xmodmap at all,
but I never could get it to work properly without that, perhaps being because
I'm not using it via usb.
HTH,
Rich
On Friday 27 December 2002 10:43 am, MdG wrote:
> Speaking of key bindings...
>
> I use one of those microsoft usb optical intellimouse..es. With the
> forward and back buttons. Anyone know if there is some driver for that?
> Wheel works fine...just not the forward or back.
>
> PS...I'm moving to KC pretty soon... Are you're meetings pretty cool?
>
> Matt
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