X.org mouse config?

[monkey8]

I have 2 mice, one works one doesn't.

The one that doesn't work is a usb "wireless intellimouse explorer" It has 7 buttons (scroller counts as 3, up, down, push)

I can't figure out which protocol to use. Whatever I try the mouse either jumps to the corners and stays there, or I can move the mouse *okay* but only up-down, not left-right.

I know the problem is with the MouseUSB, because if I comment that out in my ServerLayout, my first mouse works fine.

What Protocol do I need for my second mouse?

xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"

    # Identifier and driver

    Identifier   "MouseUSB"
    Driver   "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"   "ExplorerPS/2"#"IntelliMousePS/2"    #"auto"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Buttons" "7" #5
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" #4 5
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"

    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "MouseUSB" "SendCoreEvents"

EndSection

Maybe this boot output will help

[jake@localhost: ~]$ dmesg | grep usb  
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x59) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer® 1.0A on usb2:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid

[U-Turn]

Keep in mind, I'm running Slackware and I've never tried to set up a 7 button mouse.
The first change I'd make would be to change the protocol to IMPS/2. Then, I'd make a change to the ServerLayout. Make "SendCoreEvents" "AlwaysCore".
Also, make sure you have the values correct for ZAxisMapping. You might try "4 5" instead of "6 7".

[monkey8]

I'm also running slackware.

I just tried protocol IMPS/2 then I tried ExplorerPS/2. Neither worked.

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "MouseUSB"
    Driver   "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"   "ExplorerPS/2"#"IntelliMousePS/2"    #"auto"
    #Option "Protocol"  "IMPS/2" #usb microsoft intellimouse explorer wireless
    Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Buttons" "7"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" #not needed?
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" #ps/2 mouse that works
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    #jake added: usb mouse
    InputDevice "MouseUSB" "SendCoreEvents" #USB mouse doesn't work

EndSection

U-Turn:
Also, make sure you have the values correct for ZAxisMapping. You might try "4 5" instead of "6 7".

I know the wheel will not be scrolling, but once I get the correct protocol, I can use

$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

To get the wheel to scroll.

Here's the logs,

(**) MouseUSB: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) MouseUSB: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) MouseUSB: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Buttons" "7"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
(**) MouseUSB: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7
(**) MouseUSB: Buttons: 7
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "MouseUSB" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other)
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) MouseUSB: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

(**) MouseUSB: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) MouseUSB: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) MouseUSB: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Buttons" "7"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
(**) MouseUSB: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7
(**) MouseUSB: Buttons: 7
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "MouseUSB" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other)
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) MouseUSB: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

They don't appear to have anything wrong...

Maybe I need to update my kernel/kernel modules? I found this when searching, I don't know what it means:

stormer wrote:
Attention!

ehci-hcd is no enough driver support to get the wheel working whit sis usb controller.
You have to compile ohci-hcd too, with both every thing works find with IMPS/2 drivers.

It is true for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel.
Have fun!

p.s. It is probably the same whit Via chips using uhci-hcd.

This is definately so, because ehci is only for USB 2.0, ohci and uhci only for 1.*.

Any ideas? I'm stumped.

[monkey8]

What is usbmouse? Some reason if I remove that module, my mouse now works...

Is it too old or something? I'm using slack10 but I haven't updated my kernel 2.4.26