Intellimouse side buttons (yet again?)

To start, yes, I have done my searches and homework and I seem to be running into some problems....

I'm running kde3.1.0, XFree4.3 and Mandrake9.1

I edited my XF86Config-4 file to include 7 buttons and z-axis mapping to 6 & 7. Everything's fine so far. I ran xmodmap and the scroll switched, yippie!

Problem #1: I created a text file called Autostart and placed it in the directory named Autostart. That text file only had the line 'xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5".' Everytime I restart kde, I need to rerun xmodmap. I've tried making the file 'Autostart' and 'autostart' and I've tried to run with just a text file in the ~/.kde/ directory. Nothing seems to work. When I delete all Autostarts (directory and file) and restart, kde automatically creates the Autostart directory.

Problem #2: As I said, xmodmap runs fine and I have scroll functions, but when I run 'xev' there is no responce from the side buttons. Is there any other way to see what's going on here?

...and.... Where are my side buttons? I suppose the only real reason I need them is for games, but I'm having problems with my quake3, so I can't test them there... suggestions?

Thanks!

1 - put the command in /home/you/.xsession

2 - you need to use a suitable mouse driver, e.g IMPS/2 or ExplorerPS/2 in your XF86Config file.

My XF86Config-4 mouse section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Also, that .xsession -> just a text file for that, like the Autostart? [edit] Must not be, that didn't work.[/edit]

Might this be a better topic for hardware? Anyone have a guess?

silly question maybe but when you placed the script in Autostart, did you make it executable?
chmod +x name-of-script
I don't think it matters but the file should look like
#!/bin/bash
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

No sir... no I did not.... Ah yes, a newbe mistake!

Everything I've read states that all I need in the xmodmap line, and I did have that working on a previous install (reinstalled nix afew times,) but this brings up a question:

What does the '#!/bin/bash' line do? I've seen that referenced afew times.

Yes quatsch, not only did I need to change it to executable, but I needed the #!/bin/bash line. Really makes me wonder what it does now....

Now I still have the problem that the side buttons are not recognized in 'xev.' Since I cant just fire up quake and change a command to button 6 (quake crashes, if anyone is familiar with q3a, let me know, maybe you can help there too,) to test if they are actually there, what can I do here?

can't help you with the side button.

the #!/bin/bash tells the system to use /bin/bash to interpret the rest. Sometimes, you'll see #!/bin/sh which tells the system to use /bin/sh.