5-Button USB Wheel Mouse Config? (Memorex RF7000)

[epretorious]

I bought a really cool USB wireless keyboard/mouse combo last week (from Surplus Computers ) but can't get X to recognize any the five mouse buttons (though the scroll-wheel is recognized).

 

How can I configure X (XFree86-4.3-30mdk) to recognize the mouse buttons?

 

Eric P.

Sunnvale, CA

[VeeDubb]

Welcome to the boards.

 

Let me start with a little tip on getting help. The best thing you can do is look around. If you were to use the search feature OR even read the titles of just the very first page of hardware questions, you would have found the folllowing thread which posses TWO ways of configureing more compllex mice. The first with a nice GUI based app and the other through the command line and a text editor.

 

Look here -----> http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16246

 

All that being said, it seems that this is purely a configuration issue. If it was unrecognized hardware, you probably wouldn't get the scrol to work.

 

The second thing you can do is update your kernel. This can be done through the mandrake controll center. I won't waste the time to say how since it's REALYU well discussed on the board allready if you just look around.

 

And of course, if you get stuck anywhere, folks are always happy to help as long as you're doing your part. (i.e. searching and reading and then asking the most inteligent questions you can)

[epretorious]

Let me start with a little tip on getting help.  The best thing you can do is look around.  If you were to use the search feature OR even read the titles of just the very first page of hardware questions...

This is the crux of the the Internet: There's too much good information! I actually poked-around quite a bit before posting. I must have been driving too fast though.

 

...the folllowing thread which posses TWO ways of configureing more compllex mice. The first with a nice GUI based app and the other through the command line and a text editor.

 

Look here ----->  http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16246

 

All that being said, it seems that this is purely a configuration issue.  If it was unrecognized hardware, you probably wouldn't get the scrol to work.

 

The second thing you can do is update your kernel.  This can be done through the mandrake controll center.

 

Thanks!

 

Welcome to the boards.

And of course, if you get stuck anywhere, folks are always happy to help as long as you're doing your part. (i.e. searching and reading and then asking the most inteligent questions you can)

 

Thanks again, VeeDub!

[VeeDubb]

come back and let me know whether or not you got it working and if so, just how well. As in, all buttons with usefull funtions or basica functionality etc.