Mapping the mouse buttons via xmodmap impossible! (wrong button count) xorg.conf ... Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse-MX510" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Buttons" "10" Option "ZAxisMapping" "9 10" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "CorePointer" EndSection ~/.xinitrc xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 2 7 8 9 10 4 5" this worked well with xorg-x11-6.x.x, but with 7.0-r1 xmodmap report a error and not mapping the buttons xmodmap: commandline:1: bad number of buttons, must have 14 instead of 10 xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. i switched to evdev in the hope to solve it xorg.conf ... Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Logitech-MX510" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event-mx510" EndSection xmodmap report this : xmodmap: commandline:1: bad number of buttons, must have 32 instead of 10 xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. xmodmap -pp reports 32 buttons, wow must be a beast of a mouse! :) emerge --info : Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 Portage 2.1_pre6-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+ ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=".cut." LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/portage/main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dbus dri dvd eds emboss encode expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_de mad mbox memlimit mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userlocales vorbis xml xmms xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_joystick kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
That's a feature, not a bug. You really need 14 buttons set w/ xmodmap. No idea if you need 32 of them w/ evdev, that driver doesn't work for me at all. Example for MS Intellimouse Optical, 4 buttons + scroll wheel: non-modular X: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" modular X: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 11"
ok after spending some time playing with evdev, xmodmap and xev i got it working on my MX510: this wil be the default mapping reported by xmodmap -pp xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 73" and becuase i dont want the wheel be mouse-button 3 (i like have the button in front of the wheel as mouse-button 3) i have to use this : xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 11 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 73"
