Hi,
I read the posts on how to get the side buttons to work and I have included my ouput of my Xorg.config file. I am new to Linux and do not have the XF86config file listed in the posts, I guessing that Xorg is the right one to edit. My question is do I go ahead and make the changes as suggested in the posts to the file. Thanks, below is my output.


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

You want to know if the options for Xfree86 will work for Xorg - the answer is: usually. The two have to be very similar or there would be hell converting.

Yes - Xorg is the right one to use. It has replaced XFree on almost every major distro so far.

Caveat: make a copy of the existing Xorg.conf file (call it xorg.conf.old or something) before you make alterations.

Another alternative would be to remove the mouse - reboot with no mouse so that kudzu asks if you want to remove the configuration... remove the configuration. After the boot finished, no mouse: bummer - plug the mouse in and reboot. Now kudzu will detect a mouse and ask configuration-type questions. If it knows the mouse, and it is a common type, then kudzu will do everything right for your distro. (Of course, if you've done this and it didn't work...)