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where are my mouse buttons??

trying to set up my MX510 mouse on a SuSE box, and i am using this as a reference.

when i try to run xmodmap, i get this error:

Code:

# xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"

xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad number of buttons, must have 7 instead of 10

xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.

my xorg.conf looks like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

  Driver      "mouse"

  Identifier  "Mouse[1]"

  Option      "Buttons" "10"

  Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

  Option      "Name" "Logitech MX510"

  Option      "Protocol" "explorerps/2"

  Option      "Vendor" "Sysp"

  Option      "ZAxisMapping" "9 10"

  Option      "Resolution" "800"

EndSection

i have seen other posts regarding this kind of issues, but with no solution to my problem...

help?!?

problem solved by doing this:

Code:

echo -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5\n" > ~/.Xmodmap

but when I try to do the same on my Gentoo box, it fails saying

Code:

# xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"

xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad number of buttons, must have 3 instead of 10

xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.

I also tried

Code:

echo -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5\n" > ~/.Xmodmap

but it did not work on on the Gentoo box as it did on the SuSe box...