New mouse, what am I missing?

[bammbamm808]

2.4.19 kernel, XFree 4.2.0, Slack 8.0, KDE 2.2.2

Just got a new MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 (the one with the two extra buttons on the left side, instead of one on each side). I have it connected via USB. The NHF here worked for my old, 7 button Kensington mice, but I can't get X to see buttons 6 and 7. Using xev shows no activity from these buttons when using the ExplorerPS/2 driver, and when using the IMPS/2 driver, it sees the extra buttons as buttons 2 and 3, in addition to the normal buttons 2 and 3. Anyone else encounter this problem or have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. I hate going back to Windows just to play TFC, but I use these two buttons for handy grenade tossing.

[bammbamm808]

Believe me, it's really dumb. :-(

[JohnT]

Post it, so if someone else has the problem we'll know.:cool:

[bammbamm808]

When my other mouse died, I had a loaner that only had 3 buttons. I used a different XF86Config, and too lazy to move my xmodmap script, I just commented out the active line. I got the new mouse, restored my old XF86Config, and forgot I had commented my xmodmap script. I even fiddled with the script trying to get the mouse working and failed to notice the "#". Eventually, I noticed that if I had ZAxisMapping "6 7" in my XF86Config, that xev did "see" buttons 6 and 7. I figured the problem was still in my script (which I still thought was doing something). When I noticed that no matter what changes I made to the script, xmodmap -pp returned the same result.....a closer look at the script and egg on my face.

[JohnT]

Things like that happen all the time. At least you were honest enough to admit it. You solved another Linux problem.:D