Ric Moore wrote: > Discovered xev on another list, but it is installed on FC7. xev will /usr/bin/xev can be found in the xorg-x11-utils RPM > open a little window for you to play with all of your mouse buttons and > scroll wheel in. Just use a terminal window to launch it on the command > line with "xev". It's really simplistic and sweet, pushing your mouse > buttons will tell you what xorg button number is seen with the button > press. IFAICR, its been a part of X11 for a long time. X11R3? > I just hooked in an USB GE two scroll wheel optical mouse. One scroll > wheel is slightly behind the the normal clickable one that is seen. Plus > there are two other buttons on the left side. xev sees: > Left main button : 1 > Scroll wheel button : 2 > Right main button : 3 > Scroll wheel forward : 4 > Scroll wheel back : 5 > 2nd Scroll wheel forward: 6 > 2nd Scroll wheel back : 7 > First Side button : 8 > Second Side button : 9 > > Using the original xorg.conf, when I unplugged the PS2 mouse and plugged > in the USB mouse, the second scroll wheel was seen as buttones #6 and > #7. Well, I DINKED with xorg.conf and now it's not seen at all. I > restored the original xorg.conf file and it still is not seen now. > <sigh> I've been fartzing with with my X11 after my FC5->F8 upgrade, and my Logitech MX1000 mouse isn't working right yet. The old "InputDevice" section in my old xorg.conf produces a NULL, no core pointer error. Funny, it used to work OK under FC5. > I used the mouse-driver man page found at http://www.die.net which > explained the defs used for mice in xorg.conf. > > Question 1: option "buttons" should be listed as "buttons" "9" or > "buttons" "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" or "buttons" "1 2 3 8 9" when you have 9 > expected buttons or 5 actual buttons with 4 5 6 7 assigned to scroll > wheel buttons? It's not plain and several other web pages found by > google show options "buttons" "1 2 3 4 5 " instead of a single number > for a single scroll wheel mouse with three switches and two scroll wheel > switches. God, I hope I'm not confusing everyone. :) nope, its just not common knowledge, because most 2 and 3 button mice just work "out of the box". > Question 2: what is the difference in the use of ZAxisMapping, > XAxisMapping, YAxisMapping?? > I've tried: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" and > > option "XAxisMapping" "4 5" > option "YAxisMapping" "6 7" IIRC, ZAxisMapping is usually used for your scroll wheel, to map it from the "button events" generated by the mouse driver. X and Y axis stuff is usually the mouse movement. > --- none seem to work. But I know that at first, before I screwed with > everything that buttons 6 and 7 were reported in use by xev. Now they do > not respond. Someone shoot me now or help me from the darkness. I need > the relief either way. :) Ric Not very well documented black magic. B^) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
