ms intellimouse not working right

Jason Dravet dravet at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 1 09:16:06 PST 2006


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"

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.

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.
Here is part of the xorg.log:
(**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Buttons" "7"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11

What is wrong?  Why won't the mouse buttons work right?

Thanks,
Jason





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