SuSE 9.3 and MX500 Mouse
 

Hi all,

Here's my xorg.conf excert for my MX500 Logitech mouse.

The problem that I am having is that the thumb buttons on the side to not work (they are supposed to be back and forwards in either your file manager or browser, also the scroll wheel does not work, I have tried all sorts of things.

I had it working fine in Mandriva before switching over to SuSE and the only thing that I saw different in Mandriva was the ZAxisMapping section which in Mandriva was set to "6 7".

I have tried running sax2 to reconfigure the mouse, that didn't work, I have deleted the mouse and re-added it, that didn't work.

So please help me!!!

Hi there!

I have an MX 700 Logitech mouse, so I hope I can help you out here...

I did these steps:

(1) I changed the mouse part of my xorg.conf file:

(2) I made a bash script, called mouse.sh, containing the following:

(3) I put this file in the directory ~/.kde/Autostart/

I use KDE, but I'm sure you can do something like that for gnome if you want to use that. Now every time I start KDE, this bash file is read and processed, and the mouse is working perfectly for me. I had some trouble first, when I put another Logitech type behind the "Protocol", instead of just "ExplorerPS/2".


I hope this helps you, good luck!

Laura

Awesome thanks for that, will give it a try tonight

Let me know if you succeeded! I spent some hours on it, so I know how it feels...:p (of course, please let me also know if you did not :rolleyes: )

Well the good news is I got the mouse working just fine, I unplugged it and removed the PS/2 adapter and plugged it in by USB. Restarted and it was detected as an MX500, Suse even added an option in the Control Panel to change the Counts per inch :)

So after a few weeks of putting up with there was finally an easy solution.

Dang! I have Suse 9.3 pro and it doesn't recognize my MX700. I'd be happy if it called it even a Logitech device.

Where do I find this Xorg.conf file. How do I edit it? how do I create a bash script?

Hi,

Have you run sax2 from the command line?

If not, from your desktop press CTRL-ALT-F1 at the same time, this will drop you out of x windows login as yourself at the prompt then su to root, type in init 3 then again from the prompt type sax2, follow the prompts and alter the mouse settings, go back to the command prompt and then type init 5.

You should now be at your desktop.

Good luck :)

Hmm...Sax2 still doesn't have an MX500, or 700. Is it supose to?

Set it to explorer usb/ps/2 mouse and you should be OK, is it plugged in by USB or PS/2?

USB ......I can get my mouse to work, but I don't have the two side buttons working. Will this accomplish it?

It worked for me anyway, I'll post my xorg file when I get a chance.

Thanks, then I'll give 'er a try. ;)

Oh, how do I edit my xorg file? And, where is it located.

Only edit it when you are not running X Windows, type at the command vi /etc/X11/xorg86.conf and edit away. vi is a text editor, to exit the editor press the esc key followed by :q! then enter, or to save press exc as well then :x then enter.

Perchance did you ever get a chance to post your Xorg file? I'm still unable to use my side buttons. Also, how do you create a bash file? When I changed things in my Xorg file, I was suddenly unable to get back into X. I had decided to leave well enough alone for a while, but now I'm back to being pissed off after using M$ XP for a while and enjoying the use of the side buttons.

It appears that the issue of mouse configuration benefited from SuSE 10.0 release. For one YaST makes better use of sax2 and more mice seem to be supported. The only MS product allowed in my office is the MS Intellimouse Explorer two with forward back buttons on the side. Default configuration didn't support these. I followed the Logitech instructions in this thread and ended up with the scroll wheel doing forward/back and the side buttons doing scroll 1 line. I gave up for a while but think in my case the change of 4-5 with 6-7.
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"