Thus spake martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i would be interested how other people configure their mice. it's always > a pain i find. gpmdata doesn't always work, PS/2 doesn't always work, > psaux doesn't always work. it's always a plain $5 PS/2 mouse that i use. > disabling gpm with PS/2 on psaux usually fixes it... > Here is my mouse section from XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" Option "Buttons" "7"
I also have "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" in my ~/.xmodmap. I use whatever X is current in Woody. This is the only way I could get my Intellimouse Explorer to work, with apologies for using a M$ product. But it's so darn *good*. I had the same erratic mouse problems forever and no one seemed to have the answer. The gpm thing wasn't it for me, I'm guessing X just didn't like my PS/2 rat. Noting would fix the crazy jumping (except booting into FreeBSD, but the mouse didn't seem as functional there) until the wonderworkers over at XFree introduced the ExplorerPS/2 protocol. Now I have my wheel working in blackbox and KDE, aterm and Eterm, Gentoo and others. I can paste with the wheel when I click with it. AND I get events from the side buttons using xev. I just can't figure out a way to bind those extra buttons and make them useful. I really want the history forward/back off those buttons but I cannot find any useful material anywhere. --Hsoj
