X.org no longer sees extra buttons?

[Ismail Donmez]

Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:07 tarihinde, David Sharp şunları yazmıştı: 
> On 9/28/05, İsmail Dönmez <ismail at uludag.org.tr> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I got a Microsoft mouse with one scroll wheel and two side buttons. And I
> > have to following configuration in xorg.conf :
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >         Driver      "mouse"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >         Option      "Buttons" "7"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > Now the thing is xev no longer shows/prints an event when I press side
> > buttons. But the same configuration works fine with Xorg 6.8.2. So I
> > guess either something is broken or config stuff is changed. Ideas?
>
> it seems that the only way to acheive this is to use
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> and then use xmodmap to reverse the buttons:
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
>
> this must be run every time you start the server, so you may want to
> put it in your .xinitrc, or some global startup script.
>
> I believe this is just a workaround though, and it would be very nice
> if the mouse driver would support these mice properly.. though, i
> suppose it could be a problem with the hardware lying? I doubt that
> though.
>
> perhaps someone else has more insight.

This is still the case for X.org 6.9 rc2 release. And this worked with X.org 
6.8.2 :(

Regards,
ismail