* Nick Welch (mack@incise.org) [031119 14:52]: > Just got this mouse, and I seem to have a dead button. > > The mouse has 8 buttons: the 2 usual buttons, a wheel (i.e. 3 more), one > on either side of the mouse, and one just behind the wheel (image here: > <http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/26-104-136-03.JPG>). I looked > around and figured out how to get all buttons going in XFree, which > consisted of this in my XF86Config: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Logitech MX310" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" > Option "Buttons" "8" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "7 8" > EndSection > > And then feeding this to xmodmap to swap 4/5 and 7/8 around so the wheel > becomes buttons 4/5 (so it works normally in apps), and the two side > buttons become 7 and 8: > > pointer = 1 2 3 7 8 6 4 5 > > So at this point I have the usual buttons 1 through 5, plus 7 on the > left side and 8 on the right. However... button 6, the little button > behind the wheel, doesn't work. xev reports nothing. Running hexcat on > /dev/input/mice produces nothing whatsoever when pressing this button. > > So assuming that the kernel doesn't even seem to know that this button > is being pressed, I'm guessing either: > > 1. The mouse is extremely funkily designed and only activates that > button when certain conditions are met, i.e. installing their software > in windows. However, there have been so many lots-o-buttons mice that > work fine under unix-alikes and XFree, that I can't imagine they'd do > that for this one mouse that I decided to buy. Another possibility is > that it sends really weird things usb when that button is pressed; > things that the kernel doesn't understand and therefore doesn't pass on. > > 2. My mouse is just broken. > > 3. I'm missing something really big? Changing the protocol XFree uses > has no effect, as one would expect. No matter what, that button is > totally silent.. Does xev report anything if you press and hold the button and drag the mouse? My guess is that the mouse might have some EmulateWheel logic built-in. So that holding that button down and moving the mouse up/down (and maybe even left/right) is like rolling the wheel up/down (or clicking buttons 6 and 7, or something). good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --President Thomas Jefferson
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