moused and 7-button mice

[Danny MacMillan]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I have a Microsoft Trackball Optical that I'd been using with a Debian system 
> but that I want to switch to my FreeBSD workstation.  The problem I'm having 
> is that it has 7 buttons:
> 
>   Left
>   Middle (clicking the scroll wheel)
>   Right
>   Up scroll
>   Down scroll
>   Far-left button (narrow, to the left of the regular left button)
>   Far-right button
> 
> and moused only seems to pass the first 5 through to X.  That is, it works 
> perfectly well like a regular scroll mouse but those wonderful extra buttons 
> are ignored.  I don't even know where to begin looking for a solution.  Any 
> pointers?

I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer that also has 7 buttons (two
thumb buttons).  I have all of the buttons working in X using imwheel,
which is in the ports.  To get everything working as it should I did
have to do a little messing around.  I'll outline it here since it
took a while to figure out.

Here is the contents of my .xinitrc:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
imwheel -p -k -b "67"
exec startkde

Here is the contents of my /usr/X11R6/etc/imwheelrc:

".*"
None,Up,Alt_L|Left
None,Down,Alt_L|Right

Note that my requirements are =very= simple.  You might do better to
edit the imwheelrc file installed by default than creating one from
scratch, as I did.

Here's the InputDevice section of my XF86Config:

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psm0"
    Option "Buttons" "7"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

This is the only configuration I could get working.  I couldn't get it
working with moused, for example.  Of course, I only invested about 5
hours in it so maybe I just quit too soon :)

I suspect your trackball, also being a Microsoft device, will respond
to a similar configuration.

One last thing I'll point out:  my mouse has a USB connector but I
punch it through a USB -> PS/2 adapter to force it to work with my KVM
switch.

-- 
Danny