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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.
(2) I made a bash script, called mouse.sh, containing the following:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
(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".
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.
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.
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"
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