Tinkering w/ mouse

[Geomyster]

I've been tinkering to get my Logitech MX510 rolling so that I can use the thumb buttons for forward/backward in windows, I got it to the point that the scroll was doing this, but obviously had the wrong buttons assigned. So my question is this, is there a way that you can test the input from the mouse? IE: when I click one of the 7 buttons is there a way to know if the kernel is acknowledging this as "button 1 click" or "button 4 click" ...?

(I've been working with X11, and the xorg.conf file directly to try to get it to work right)

Suse 10.1

[techieMoe]

Yes, I believe the program you want is the xev utility. Open up a terminal and launch it. It will show you real-time what events are getting fired such as "Mouse button 1 click", "Mouse button 1 release", etc. I've used it to diagnose joystick mapping problems in the past.

[Geomyster]

Frickin' sweet That'll work, Thanks!

[Geomyster]

Hey, I got my Logitech MX510 working, scrolling, and w/ the forward / backward button capabilities for browsing, anyone trying to do just that try these lines on your xorg.conf:

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5"

so the entire mouse part should look something like:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "PS2++ Logitech MX Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5"
EndSection


~Good luck!