How to use many (more than 6) button mouse devices?
I've got myself a Kensington ExpertMouse Pro USB trackball. The thing has
6 "special" buttons (ie. intended for exe launching, etc)
4 regular buttons
1 wheel
My current XFree86 (v 4.2.x) Config block is:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TurboMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
#Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "12"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
This gives me three usable regular buttons (ie. right, left, middle),
and a working wheel. In 'xev' the fourth regular button generates a
button3 event, and none of the special buttons register at all. The
XF86Config "Buttons" option doesn't seem to do much at all...
I tried the Protocol options "auto" and "usb" but X bailed with an error
that it couldn't find a working mouse (or something to that effect).
I've googled usenet and the web for a couple days now without any success.
There is a sourceforge project called jamd <http://jamd.sourceforge.net/>
that looks like it might work but it appears to have been idle for quite a
while. Ideally, I would be happy if I could export the "extra" button
events as keypresses (which could then be mapped as I chose).
Any suggestions?
-- Brad
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Brad Sawatzky <bds9e@virginia.edu>
University of Virginia Physics Department
Ph: (434) 924-6580 Fax: (434) 924-4576
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