Middle button not working with Creative Notebook Optical mouse

[Toralf Lund]

Wolfgang wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:44 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:05 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>>xorg.conf
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>>>Section "InputDevice"
>>>       Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>>       Driver      "mouse"
>>>       Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>>       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>>       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"  <-----
>>>       Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" <-----
>>>EndSection
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>>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...
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>>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.
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>>- Toralf
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>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.
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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