A friend of mine pointed me to this message from one of the Xorg lists. I have not yet had time to test it, and it will probably be a couple days before I do. Hope this helps everyone out. -George
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias Hopf Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:19 AM To: Discuss issues related to the xorg tree Subject: Re: ms intellimouse not working right On Feb 01, 06 11:16:06 -0600, Jason Dravet wrote: > I am using rawhide (fedora core development). They just updated to xorg 7 > final and I was hoping that my mouse problem would be fixed, but it wasn't. > I have a 5 button + scrollwheel mouse (MS intellimouse explorer). I want > to use the side buttons. In xorg 6.8 it worked great, but in 7 it does not > work. Here is the mouse part of my xorg.conf: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Buttons" "7" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" > EndSection > > I also have this file called mouse.sh in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ > #!/bin/sh > # /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse > # Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse > xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" No longer required, actually harmfull now. man mouse (default was wrong, have commited that now): Option "ButtonMapping" "N1 N2 [...]" Specifies how physical mouse buttons are mapped to logical but- tons. Physcial button 1 is mapped to logical button N1, physi- cal button 2 to N2, and so forth. This enables the use of phys- ical buttons that are obscured by ZAxisMapping. Default: "1 2 3 8 9 10 ...". So if you want to get buttons events 6 and 7 with physical buttons 4 and 5 you want Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7" But as mice with two wheels are getting more available now, applications might be configured to use buttons 6 and 7 for horizontal scrolling soon. You might want to use the default configuration and configure applications to use buttons 8 and 9 for button actions. Though it is largely undecided right now whether the default like it is now is a good idea, or whether other buttons should be reserved for the secondary wheel. > If I run mouse.sh I get this: > xmodmap: commandline:1: bad number of buttons, must have 11 instead of 7 > xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. This is because due to default ButtonMapping you get 4 more buttons than configured. But you don't want to use xmodmap any more. > I was run xorg7 rc something and there was a discussion about the number of > buttons being hard coded or something like that the point is this is/was a > known problem. I can't find the thread now that I need it. No. Different thing. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"