LinuxQuestions.org - Mouse Button Issues

Hi there. I've recently purchased this mouse. I am running debian sarge with kernel version 2.4.27-2-386. The button is advertised to have 10 buttons, but if X sees the scroll wheel up and down to be different buttons, it has 12. Everything worked right out of the box which I thought was strange. I just pulled out the old one and plugged in the new one and everything worked.

The problem is that I'd like to change one of the buttons to open a console window. The mouse section of my XF86Config-4 file looks like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"

        Driver          "mouse"

        Option          "CorePointer"

        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"

        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"

        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"

EndSection

So as you can see, it hasn't detected these extra buttons but they all seem to work. The forward/back browser buttons, the switch window, the close window, the scroll up and down buttons, they all work. When I press the my computer button, nothing happens. IF I press that button in a console window, the character 'e' appears.

Does it make a difference that I have restarted X but not rebooted since I installed this mouse? As pathetic as this sounds, I'd rather not reboot to not blow my uptime, but if that's the answer then fine. I really don't care about it.

So, I have two questions: How on earth did this work without having to modify the configuration and how can I now modify said configuration without breaking all of the things that work now?