trying to figure out how to make this work (all the buttons) on linux. I've seen a couple old tutorials on installing xbindkeys but i can't get xbindkeys to install get some errors when i do the make and makeinstall commands.

any help would be appreciated, thanks.

what buttons ARENT working? http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...INDEX+Hardware

the mousewheel, left mouse button and right mouse button..

i want to use the 2 thumb buttons mouse4/5 (at least its 4/5 on windows)

well lets start by getting the basic buttons to work.

is it a USB mouse? what is the number of buttons?

since you dont say what distro and version your using, this may not work:

open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.. scroll down to the mouse input device section and copy/paste that here so we can check it out

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



i have the Logitech MX1000 laser mouse its a usb wireless.

oh and im using SuSE10.0

i misread your question, the mousewheel/left&right mouse btns work.. i was wanting the other ones to work as well (the 2 thumb buttons)

ok.. because i was gonna say, that your configuration looks similar to mine, and it works (the basic buttons).

did you read the link i posted earlier? iv never tried it but that is what a simple search yielded... if that doesnt work then continue to search on LQ.org or google.com/linux for your mouse. there ARE threads regarding this mouse at this website already, check them out if you havent already.

on step 2 it says to

Copmile it with gcc -o evdev-key-btn-test evdev-key-btn-test.c an run it with the following command

i type that in the terminal and it says no such file/directory exists

ugh why can't this mouse profile already be in sax2? its a popular mouse, this and the mx518


is there a script that will just set it all up w/ 1 command :P

can you post exactly what you typed and exactly the output?
did you download the file it said to download to compile?
can you paste the output of the cat command it tells you to issue in step 2

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0006 Version=0042
N: Name="ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=1f0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

..ok? again, what is the output of the command that you issued? did you download the file it said to download?

if you dont want me to help you i can simply stop.. please provide details.

its not telling me to download anything in the first 2 steps tho, the second step isnt compiling w/e its trying to.

in step 2 it says the following:
the text 'here' is a hyperlink to the .c file its referring to. you need to click it and save the file then use gcc on that file. youll have to either 'cd' to the directory you save the file or use the full path to the file when u run the gcc command