Re: Middle button not working with Creative Notebook Optical mouse

[Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wolfgang wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:59 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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> > Wolfgang wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:44 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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> > > > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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> > > > > On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:05 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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> > > > > > 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?
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> > > > > xorg.conf
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> > > > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > > >      Identifier  "Mouse0"
> > > > >      Driver      "mouse"
> > > > >      Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> > > > >      Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > > > >      Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"  <-----
> > > > >      Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" <-----
> > > > > EndSection
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> > > > 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...
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > - Toralf
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> > > 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.
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> > I think you missed the point here.
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> > 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.
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> > - Toralf
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> 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.
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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.
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> Wolf
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