Mouse buttons don't work in xorg

[dan@george]

I just did a fresh Slackware install on my new machine, and everything went smoothly. At first, xorg (in any window manager) wouldn't respond to my wireless mouse at all. However I fixed that by synching the mouse to the receiver. Now the mouse pointer moves when I move the mouse, but the buttons don't do anything when I click them. Is anybody familiar with this issue?

[sarumont]

No buttons work? What type of mouse is it (brand, interface,buttons)? And can you post the mouse section of you xorg.conf?

[dan@george]

No, none of my mouse buttons work. Here's my xorg mouse section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

It's a Memorex wireless RF7000 wireless optical mouse. Thanks for responding. Any ideas?

[adrenaline]

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Mike looks like this.

[dan@george]

Thanks.

I tried copying both those examples, but still the same problem; I can move the mouse around the screen, but can't click. I know that the click signal is at least making it to the wireless receiver, because that blinks whenever I click. Also, my keyboard is connected to the same receiver and works fine. Anybody have any different approaches?

[adrenaline]

I have a lazor mouse and it works. I don't have a wireless so I can't be much help. I do however suggest that if you figure it out that you post it, because I am sure that it will come up again somewhere else. Also save your origional
xorg file as something else and experiment with the options see if you can accidentally figure it out. If it breaks you can always overwrite your experiment with your saved file


Keep us informed,
Mike

[mont]

In Slackware 10 my mouse works ok with exception of the wheel function.

Don't have that problem with Fedora, SuSe etc.

Any Ideas please?

[adrenaline]

Ya scroll up a couple and compare your xorg.conf file to mine.
You need the right protocoll PS/2 or IMPS/2 and don't forget the ZAxismapping option
Mike

[mont]

Thanks for the reply. I did read your post and edit my config file to correspond with your suggestion, before posting, and it had no effect

I suppose it's no big deal but it is a handy facility.

[adrenaline]

Show me your xorg.conf file.