Thank for the info Ken and welcome. I personally welcome all Linux and FOSS information. <br>-slofgren<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Ken Nelan, s.f.o. <<a href="mailto:kjnelan@msn.com">kjnelan@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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(I hope it's okay to send stuff like this. Please let me know if it is
not correct form. It is also a bcc to mulitple forums. Thank you.)<br><br>I
am recently a new convert to Linux though I have been using it for
years off and on; not really serious, but at the same time eager to
move into the free os world.<br><br>More than anything else however, I
have loved the challenge of getting things to work through time and
patience and ceiling climbing (its a new sport, I promise).<br><br>Recently
after installing Ubuntu 8.04 on my desktop, laptop and ceiling (at
least claw marks if not the cd's from the botched writes), I came
across a problem that had plagued me since my first days with linux: a
wireless mouse that doesn't work well.<br><br>Specifically, the wheel
scroll thingy and the back and forward button thingys never seemed to
work at the same time and the scroll would always go to heck in a hand
basket.<br><br>I even found a bug report at:
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/124440" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/124440</a>
describing the same problem with similar mice.<br><br>I found the same
problem with a standard wired mouse as well, but the answer bugged the
heck out of me, but I think I may have found a solution. One that a
great many people seemed to have over looked. It's the number of
actual buttons on a mouse. Today's mice have more than 3 and 5
buttons. They more often than not have 7,9 or more buttons.<br><br>Putting
the correct number of buttons in the xorg.conf seems to resolve all
issues with scroll lines, back and forward clicks and so forth. ( at
least it did for me and only after weeks of frustrating trial and
error.)<br><br>I used the following xorg.conf modification on all of
these mice: Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000, GE Optical Mouse
WK2803 (usb mosue), Dynatech Wireless Mouse, No name off the shelf
mouse. With the exception of the Microsoft mouse, all had 7 buttons
(Right, Left, Back, Forward, scroll up, scroll down, press scroll
button in = 7). The Microsoft mouse had 9 buttons (Right, Left, Back,
Forward, scroll up, scroll down, press scroll
button, move scroll button left, move scroll button right, = 9)<br><br>(my xorg.conf now looks like this)(mines located at /etc/X11/):<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br>
Identifier "Configured Mouse"<br>
Driver "mouse"<br>
Option "CorePointer"<br>
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<br>
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"<br>
Option "Buttons" "7" <-- for my Microsoft mouse, I changed this to 9 and everything worked properly.<br>
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<br>
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3"<br>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"<br>
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side to side actions and the depression on the scroll wheel may not
work correctly unless they are properly mapped, but I don't know many
people who use those anyway. (I can learn not to use them for now).<br><br>I
hope this helps anyone out there who may have had or is currently
having a similar problem with no scroll or no back or forward (side
buttons) clicking on their mice.<br><br>Peace to All,<br><br>kjnelan</div>
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