explorer mouse and mandrake 8 , i want my side buttons :(

[Icculus]

is there a way to enable the side buttons ?

mandrake 8
MS intell-mouse (optical)

[Icculus]

its usb btw , i dunno if that matters

[anton]

I would love to enable my side button on logitech mouse also ...


Icculus, sorry, that didn't help you , just bumping up to the top :)

[Malakin]

the xfree86 4.0.3 docs (which mandrake 8 uses) lists those mice here and says the side buttons will work: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.3/mouse6.html#27

Getting the side buttons to do anything useful is another issue :)

[Icculus]

yea they are functional , but i play q3 and in q3 i have things bound to thoise buttons ( in windows) i miss them badly :(

[Icculus]

*bump*

still need help , i knwo this can be done , cause i know peeps that have done it

[bdg1983]

They are normally functional though they don't work in Q3, but your peeps have enabled those 4th and 5th buttons to work.

Could you not ask them or check the Q3 config files?

[Malakin]

How would one go about mapping mouse buttons to keyboard commands in X, for example if everytime I hit my 2nd mouse button I wanted it to be just like I hit the letter x on my keyboard?

I was looking over the .Xdefaults stuff and that's all far too complicated and time consuming, I'm looking for a simpler answer. Maybe some gui program that allows me to map my mouse buttons to something useful. I don't currently own a 7 button (including wheel) mouse but I might buy one if I could make the buttons do something.

[Icculus]

Originally posted by mdwatts the 3rd:
<STRONG>They are normally functional though they don't work in Q3, but your peeps have enabled those 4th and 5th buttons to work.

Could you not ask them or check the Q3 config files?</STRONG>

no i cant , the one i asked uses ps2 and i i tried his settings and it killed my X

i have heard of others making it work too

see the problem is , they are indeed functional in X , but they are emulating buttons already assigned , so the button side button is like refresh or paste or soemthing (same as mouse 3), the top side button is the menu button ( same as mouse button 2)

maybe i just need to remap them ?

idealy i would like the top side to be pgup and the bottom side to be pgdn if its possible

[Malakin]

maybe i just need to remap them ?
This explains what you need to do: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/intellimouseexplorer.html

[Disciple]

Iccy,

Everyone I have talked to said you cannot get your side mouse buttons to work properly with the mouse wheel unless you setup with PS/2...I have tried those settings I showed you with USB. It does not work. It's not a Redhat thing either. Those settings are specific to XF86 not the distro's themselves. If you have any of your side buttons working you might want to try this atleast. When you in console (you can be logged in as well) you need to type the following xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5". But again that's not going to work because you haven't specified to XF86 that you are using a 7 button mouse and your connected using USB. I promise you man that these settings will work if you switch to PS/2. IT'S NOT JUST FOR REDHAT!!!!


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSection

PS
In the newer version of XF86 it allows you to put for the Identifier "IntelliMouse".

Hope that helps fellas. D|s

[xIcculusx]

well has nothing to do with redhat , as 2 do with 2 things at this point , my mandrake is working so sweet right now i dont wanna f it up like we did last time trying to swap the mouse to a p2s , ill look around and if i can find detailed info on how to re-install themouse without f'n my mandrake up ill give her a shot , plus i like usb ;)

we shall see .. thnx dis , thnx everyone , im going to read that link right now