Re: Middle button not working with Creative Notebook Optical mouse

Wolfgang wrote:

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:59 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:

Wolfgang wrote:

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:44 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:05 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:

I just connected a "Creative Notebook Optical" mouse to my FC3 system. Works fine, mostly, but it looks like middle-button clicks aren't registered. Any ideas why?

xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "Mouse0"
     Driver      "mouse"
     Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
     Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
     Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"  <-----
     Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" <-----
EndSection

Yes, when using those I do get middle-click *emulation*. - Actually, I thought I tried that earlier and that it didn't work, but apparently system-config-mouse didn't update xorg.conf...

I'd still prefer the real thing, though. I mean, it seems to me that a switch is activated if I press down the scroll wheel, but X doesn't seem to understand the signal (presumably) being sent.

- Toralf

If you are using a mouse with 3 buttons, you don't need the
'emulate3buttons' option in xorg.cfg. Remove it.. It's there for people
who have two button mice, where you press both buttons to simulate the
middle button, hence giving you 3 buttons.

I think you missed the point here.

The mouse has 3 buttons, but X or the console mouse service on a Fedora Core 3 setup doesn't understand that it does; nothing happens if I press the middle button.

- Toralf

No, I haven't missed the point. If you setup your Xorg.cfg like the
person suggested above, and set the 'Emulate3buttons' to 'NO' then it
will work. I have an 8 button mouse and all the buttons work. And I have
it configured that way.

Yes you have. I originally had "Emulate3buttons=NO", and the middle button didn't work.

Plus, for some reason you always need to configure the mouse up
manually, as NO distribution I've used to date, detects the mice
correctly.

Wolf