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I've ready many threads in relation to my problem but even after
following the advice of each in turn I still seem to be having trouble
getting my MS IntelliMouse Explorer (optical/usb) to work with Gentoo.
The problem is:

- The scroll wheel doesn't scroll within a page, however it acts like a
back and forward button - one notch back and I go back a page.

- The side button on the left instead of navigating back browes to
another page I'm trying to discover what page it IS actually launching -
it seems to pick one and use that for a while, then changes to a
different page and goes to that each time I press it - weird...

- The side button on the right acts exactly the same as the right mouse
button (opens context menu).

- Pressing the middle wheel button works correctly (copy/paste).

And help would be greatly appreciated.

Following is my xorg.conf file:

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZaxisMapping "4 5"

sh4d03 wrote:

> I've ready many threads in relation to my problem but even after
> following the advice of each in turn I still seem to be having trouble
> getting my MS IntelliMouse Explorer (optical/usb) to work with Gentoo.
> The problem is:
>
> - The scroll wheel doesn't scroll within a page, however it acts like a
> back and forward button - one notch back and I go back a page.
>
> - The side button on the left instead of navigating back browes to
> another page I'm trying to discover what page it IS actually launching -
> it seems to pick one and use that for a while, then changes to a
> different page and goes to that each time I press it - weird...
>
> - The side button on the right acts exactly the same as the right mouse
> button (opens context menu).
>
> - Pressing the middle wheel button works correctly (copy/paste).
>
> And help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Following is my xorg.conf file:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # Identifier and driver
>
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> Option "ZaxisMapping "4 5"

Well for starters you have 7 buttons, not 5. Lets count them.
Left click
Right click
Centre click
MWheel Up
MWheel Down
Back button
Forward button

Secondly I would use the ExplorerPS/2 protocol over IMPS/2 because you have
an explorer mouse.

By the way it's spelled ZAxisMapping, not ZaxisMapping, so you'll need to
change that.

Finally you will need the program imwheel to get the back and forward side
buttons working. I suspect you already have this as you describe the
functionality as working albeit on the scroll wheel. In any case you
should have already done a:
# emerge imwheel

I have ZAxisMapping on buttons 6 and 7, which is what it should be if you
are going to be running imwheel.

Here is my IMWheel launch script file.

#!/bin/bash

killall imwheel
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
BINARY=$(which imwheel)
$BINARY -k -p -b "67"

In order that this script runs, I put a link to this file in
my .kde/Autostart directory. This is of little help if you don't run KDE,
though .

Here is my ~/.imwheelrc configuration file.

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

"(null)"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right

The second entry is for mozilla and firefox. The first is for konqueror,
and pretty much everything else.

HTH, Styvaen.

Haven't got time to try and get this to work at the moment. After a few
more changes prior to receiving your post I've managed to get everything
working except the back and forward buttons. The forward button still
acts the same as the right click button while the back button... well...
I still can't quite figure out what it's doing :S

Any more ideas?

BTW, I don't use KDE - I'm using Xfce4

Sh4d03

Styvaen wrote:
> sh4d03 wrote:
>
>
>>I've ready many threads in relation to my problem but even after
>>following the advice of each in turn I still seem to be having trouble
>>getting my MS IntelliMouse Explorer (optical/usb) to work with Gentoo.
>>The problem is:
>>
>>- The scroll wheel doesn't scroll within a page, however it acts like a
>>back and forward button - one notch back and I go back a page.
>>
>>- The side button on the left instead of navigating back browes to
>>another page I'm trying to discover what page it IS actually launching -
>>it seems to pick one and use that for a while, then changes to a
>>different page and goes to that each time I press it - weird...
>>
>>- The side button on the right acts exactly the same as the right mouse
>>button (opens context menu).
>>
>>- Pressing the middle wheel button works correctly (copy/paste).
>>
>>And help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Following is my xorg.conf file:
>>
>>Section "InputDevice"
>>
>># Identifier and driver
>>
>>Identifier "Mouse1"
>>Driver "mouse"
>>Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>>Option "Buttons" "5"
>>Option "ZaxisMapping "4 5"
>
>
> Well for starters you have 7 buttons, not 5. Lets count them.
> Left click
> Right click
> Centre click
> MWheel Up
> MWheel Down
> Back button
> Forward button
>
> Secondly I would use the ExplorerPS/2 protocol over IMPS/2 because you have
> an explorer mouse.
>
> By the way it's spelled ZAxisMapping, not ZaxisMapping, so you'll need to
> change that.
>
> Finally you will need the program imwheel to get the back and forward side
> buttons working. I suspect you already have this as you describe the
> functionality as working albeit on the scroll wheel. In any case you
> should have already done a:
> # emerge imwheel
>
> I have ZAxisMapping on buttons 6 and 7, which is what it should be if you
> are going to be running imwheel.
>
> Here is my IMWheel launch script file.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> killall imwheel
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
> BINARY=$(which imwheel)
> $BINARY -k -p -b "67"
>
> In order that this script runs, I put a link to this file in
> my .kde/Autostart directory. This is of little help if you don't run KDE,
> though .
>
> Here is my ~/.imwheelrc configuration file.
>
> ".*"
> None, Up, Alt_L|Left
> None, Down, Alt_L|Right
>
> "(null)"
> None, Up, Alt_L|Left
> None, Down, Alt_L|Right
>
> The second entry is for mozilla and firefox. The first is for konqueror,
> and pretty much everything else.
>
> HTH, Styvaen.
>

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sh4d03 wrote:

> Haven't got time to try and get this to work at the moment. After a few
> more changes prior to receiving your post I've managed to get everything
> working except the back and forward buttons. The forward button still
> acts the same as the right click button while the back button... well...
> I still can't quite figure out what it's doing :S
>
> Any more ideas?
>

No but if you want the back button working refer to my post. Also you don't
need kde for this. I was just alluding to the kde autostart directory
being a good way to start imwheel.

Styvaen.