Hi

I've had a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+mouse+buttons and done a general google of the thing, tried what the thread recommended but no real luck as yet

Firstly, what protocol should i configure, seems "ExplorerPS/2" is the way to go, but what makes it the one? I've been using IMPS/2 and that seems to do the same thing ...

Second, the box says the mouse has 8 buttons, however, it has the standard 3, another three on the thumb, one above and below the wheel (which are giving the same impulse as the wheel) and then the left and right pivot action of the wheel. So that adds up to 10 really, but two give the same message as the wheel so that takes us back to the claimed 8. However i can't get an input on most of them.

Now i told xorg.conf about the 8 buttons, and did the xmodmap command (xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 4 5") and that didn't do much besides break the mousewheel (i went with a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 instead and that works more to my taste, though i can change the z axis mapping and that would just mean the mouse wheel would be on alternate buttons ...

Eitherway, one button on the thumb is not recognised, and the mousewheel pivots don't do anything either (ie not recognized as far as i can tell) and the other buttons replicate the function of the main three (granted i haven't played with reconfiguring those yet).

Any ideas on how to make this all happen ? Ta

i just found http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...p?articleid=46 which deals with the MX1000 specifically ... so i think that will get me working, but ... we'll see

I have the same mouse. I've done everything as in the article. Now I have the following situation:

XF86Config-4:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "evdev"
Option "Dev Name" "Logitech USB Receiver" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Option "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" # (/dev/input/mice also appears to work)
Option "Buttons" "12"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "11 12"
Option "Resolution" "800"
EndSection

.Xmodmap:

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5

Xev detects all buttons. The wheel works just fine, the backward and forward buttons work but left and right wheel pivots do not affect anything. Is it browser problem or an X problem how do you think?

Upd: in Opera the wheel works, but backward and forward do the desired horizontal scroll! But pivots still dead and no config is possible...

I'm trying to get my MX1000 to work and I found the linuX-gamers article, but I've run into a problem.

I ran the evdev command and didn't receive any output (using kernel 2.6.9). So, I downloaded the patches (could only get 2 of the 3, the keyboard link was broken). I go into the terminal and type "patch <filename>.patch", then press enter.

The cursor jumps down to the next line and then....nothing happens. It just stays there. I never get any output after running that command. I can still work in the system just fine, but nothing ever occurs with the patch and it never goes back to # in the terminal window.

Any ideas?

I am using the 2.6.8 kernel on an x86_64 platform.
I followed the gamers article.
When I add the "evdev" protocol to XF86Config, then
windows hangs after the splash screen goes away. Any Ideas?