I've got a Logitech MX700 mouse, and it has 8 buttons. When I was using Mandrake, 7 of these buttons would be detected, providing I added the following line in XF86Config

Option "Buttons" "7"

then I restart X11 and launch "xev" on a term window, and 7 buttons work (the 8th button, the app switcher isn't recognized even with changing the above line to reflect 8 buttons--must be a driver thing)


HOWEVER, In Fedora, even if I make the above change, xev will only recognize 5 of my buttons--the left,right,scroll and the scroll_up/arrow_up and scroll_down/arrow_down button. The two buttons on the left hand side aren't detected in xev.

If anyone has any success with this, please let me know!

Got the same mouse and using FC1 as well.
Same issue here pal ...

I poked around some more forums and went on #fedora on freenode

Looks like the solution is 3-fold

1) change Option "Protocol" to "ExplorerPS/2"
2) change Option "Buttons" to "7"
3) change Option "ZAxisMaping" to "6 7" (this may not be necessary)

reload X11

then open up a terminal window and type

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

Everything works!

Now, if I could only get imwheel to work in firebird, I'd be all set!!!!!

which section of XF86Config do I add this to? I have two of them:
One has the input as /dev/input/mice
and the other has /dev/psaux
I tried to make the identifier in both be Logitech MX700, but for some reason that killed X when I rebooted and I had to rerun Xf86config. Thanks for the help!
Eric

You can't have spaces in your Identifier I believe, which is why X crapped out. Make the changes to both of them--one of them will be the correct one :-P

imwheel works great too..just had to find the right settings