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For some reason my mouse buttns do not work anymore only the left and right mouse button?? I had it working fine with all of them and then I upgraded slack and now I got problems. heres my Xorg and yes i edited my .xintrc. I need some insight..
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "8 9"
I also tried all the walkthroughs on linux gamers etc. I am using it through a kvm with the ps2 converter.
The new x11 should deal with your mouse without any configuration. If you are still having errors, use xev to see what the buttons are being detected as.
I tried all that and my mouse wheel still doesnt work and it recognizes my left right and middle mouse. both thumb buttons are as middle mouse too WTF? It works properly in windows so I assume its not the kvm. But maybe since windows accepts sloppy device actions?? I will bypass my kvm and see.
I dont use the xinitrc like that myself. With a 2.4 kernel, I created a .Xmodmap file in /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap, and just put pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 in there. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I've got:
Hey, I'm also trying to get my mouse working.. I did the same thing as you, but it seems that xinitrc never gets processed unless I use the XDM session manager (ugly). The XFce window manager is an exception, but then my xinitrc.xfce is a symlink to a file specific to XFce, so I think xinitrc.xfce is executed as part of XFce's startup routine, not that of X, and therefore won't work for other window managers. Does anyone know whether there's anything I can use that gets automatically executed, regardless of window manager, after X initializes? I tried /etc/rc.d/rc.4, but that runs before X starts so xmodmap gives a display error.
I'm pretty sure this is all I need now (everything works perfectly if I just manually enter the xmodmap line in a terminal), but I've been working on this all day and I've run out of ideas for config files and shell scripts to prod. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
**EDIT**
I think it also works if I just say 'startx', but then I'd be on runlevel 3 and wouldn't have the pretty GUI for window manager selection. I'm hoping to get this to work even if I just boot straight into runlevel 4.
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