Use intellimouse explorer with linux, completly?

[ManInCamo]

any way I can sucessfully use my browsing buttons and everything with my intellimouse explorer?

[edweird]

Try here (http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardware/Configuring_the_Intellimouse_Explorer_in_XFree86.h tml) and here (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/21303) .

[fireflayer]

sorry for posting in your thread... but I've tried those links, and I don't want the 6-7 for scrolling, but for what they're intended to do. I switched the scrolling over to the wheel where I want it... is there a way to have the wheel scroll and have the 6 and 7 button go back and forward?

Thanks

[cornydog]

fireflayer:

Read the rest of the article. After you change XF86Config-4, you have to do the following:

If left as-is, your scrolling will occur with the "side buttons" and NOT with the wheel, so one has to
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
to get the wheel working correctly. I have this in a shell script that GNOME executes on startup. If anyone knows any other way to make this permanent, please email me. I've tried ~/.Xdefaults ~/.xdefaults ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession and a couple of things in /etc/ X11/ and none of them work.

If you set ZAxisMapping to "4 5" the mousewheel will work, but X won't see the other buttons. (xev)

from: http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardware/Configuring_the_Intellimouse_Explorer_in_XFree86.h tml