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Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Xfree86 4.01/IntelliMouse
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thanks dan, I will give it a shot later tonight.


Dan Cuthbert wrote:
> 
> Easy
> 
> This is relatively easy to do. You must be using XFree 4.x for this to work
> though, as this mouse technically has 7 buttons, and 3.x only supports up to
> 5.
> 
> The mouse section in your XF86Config should look like this:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol"        "ExplorerPS/2"
>         Option      "Device"          "/dev/mouse"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping"    "6 7"
>         Option      "Buttons"         "7"
> EndSection
> You have to map the mousewheel out of the way as shown, as otherwise the
> extra buttons aren't detected. Now we can swap stuff back though. Either add
> this line to your .xinitrc: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" or add this
> line to your ~/.Xmodmap: pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5.
> 
> That's it. The side buttons will be 6 and 7 now, and mousewheel scrolling
> will work as ever. You can bind the buttons to do whatever you like in your
> favorite windowmanager and applications.
> 
> Dan Cuthbert
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