Middle button not working with Creative Notebook Optical mouse

[Wolfgang]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:59 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> Wolfgang wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:44 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:05 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I just connected a "Creative Notebook Optical" mouse to my FC3 system. 
> >>>>Works fine, mostly, but it looks like middle-button clicks aren't 
> >>>>registered. Any ideas why?
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>xorg.conf
> >>>
> >>>Section "InputDevice"
> >>>       Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >>>       Driver      "mouse"
> >>>       Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> >>>       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >>>       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"  <-----
> >>>       Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" <-----
> >>>EndSection
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Yes, when using those I do get middle-click *emulation*. - Actually, I 
> >>thought I tried that earlier and that it didn't work, but apparently 
> >>system-config-mouse didn't update xorg.conf...
> >>
> >>I'd still prefer the real thing, though. I mean, it seems to me that a 
> >>switch is activated if I press down the scroll wheel, but X doesn't seem 
> >>to understand the signal (presumably) being sent.
> >>
> >>- Toralf
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >If you are using a mouse with 3 buttons, you don't need the
> >'emulate3buttons' option in xorg.cfg. Remove it.. It's there for people
> >who have two button mice, where you press both buttons to simulate the
> >middle button, hence giving you 3 buttons.
> >  
> >
> I think you missed the point here.
> 
> The mouse has 3 buttons, but X or the console mouse service on a Fedora 
> Core 3 setup doesn't understand that it does; nothing happens if I press 
> the middle button.
> 
> - Toralf
> 
> 
No, I haven't missed the point. If you setup your Xorg.cfg like the
person suggested above, and set the 'Emulate3buttons' to 'NO' then it
will work. I have an 8 button mouse and all the buttons work. And I have
it configured that way.

Plus, for some reason you always need to configure the mouse up
manually, as NO distribution I've used to date, detects the mice
correctly.

Wolf