Getting evdev to work

[David Woodfall]

On (09:46 23/06/07), David Woodfall <dave at unrealize.co.uk> put forth the proposition:
> I'm having a few problems.
> 
> With 'mouse' driver my MX510 side buttons show in xev as button 2 (middle
> mouse). I've tried every proto but still same result.

Solved by 'modprobe psmouse proto=exps'. Haven't checked yet but I read
that evdev sometimes crashes x if the 'Name' option is used.

> 
> I used to use evdev some time ago and just installed again to try but x
> crashes out - Null Pointer for mouse0
> 
> I've no idea why evdev no longer works or why the mouse driver doesn't see
> my buttons anymore. This is on Slackware current xorg 6.9. Was working fine
> until I did a clean install.
> 
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