I am using SuSE 10, and as the title says, I have a Microsoft keyboard and mouse. The Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 and Digital Media Pro Keyboard. In using SuSE there is a distinct loss of features they both had in Windows.

IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0:
(I am using it PS/2) I have the right and left click working fine, the scrollwheel works, even the pushing the scroll wheel works...But It has more features I would like to have here in SuSE. The scrollwheel also has a tilting feature(left and right) which normally moves a page left and right in Windows. It also has 2 sidebuttons which were mapped to "forward" and "back" which worked as forward and back in FireFox and IE and Explorer etc for browsing the web and files.
I tried following the XFree86 mans, but they only mention use of mapping the sidebuttons to mimic mouse scroll, which is not how I want to use them. I have searched on google, and the LQ forums, I cannot yet find a way of mapping these buttons, any help?

Digital Media Pro Keyboard:
It is no standard 104 key, but I see no options for selecting even a resembling keyboard through the YAST/x11. I get a few options, but none activate any of the buttons which are why I have this keyboard. I would like to have my Zoom slider functioning, all the hot buttons for Mail, Web, Messenger, Calculator, etc, volume buttons, and media access for play/pause. Is any/all of this possible somehow with my keyboard? Is there a way to add this kind of keyboard as a device in x11?

Thanks.

I personally believe that right and left scroll is software emulated. For this reason wouldn't work. About extra buttons, perhaps you should increase the number of buttons on Xorg.config file to 7
The most complex keyboard that that Linux supports today is 105 iso intl.
And why would anybody need more than 105 keys?

I too have a 7 "button" (the wheel counts as 3) mouse. (BTW, it sounds like yours qualifies as a 9 button model.)

I have had the problem of finding a use for the extra buttons on the back burner for a while.
Perhaps if you would post links to things you have looked at it might help both of us find a solution.

Redshirt,

You did not get back with me on the mouse problem, try this to get the side buttons working, This is my xorg.conf file in /etc/x11:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ExplorerPS/2 on USB"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Vendor" "USB-Mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

This is for the Intellimouse 2.0, there are actually nine buttons but I have not been able to get them to work. This will at least get your side buttons working. After you change the xorg.conf file create the following file: /etc: profile.local

After you create it run the following code:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

The 6 and 7 button can be reversed if you want the back button to be the first side button. Let me know if this works.

Bingo. That did indeed get it working. Thank you very much. I lookk forward to the day someone figures out the keyboard stuff though, and the sidescrolling with the middle button.

Redshirt,

Glad to hear you got the side buttons working, as far as the tilt wheel, maybe one of the days somebody will figure it out. The only thing I used it is Excel spreadsheets at work and not that often. Later!

am I foobarred on the keyboard?

yes you are foobarred on the keyboard, as I have the same problem.