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driver for 4 button wheel trackball

Asked by rodger858

I want a driver for a microsoft 4 button trackball with wheel. default driver only sees two buttons and wheel.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Are you sure it is a question of driver and not of the X server configuration?

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#2

Thanks for you question.
You try to modify the section "inputDevice" in /ect/X11/xorg.conf like this:

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

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#3

Change the name of "Identifier" to your name and "device" to your

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#4

If it is an X server configuration problem, you may want to have a look at this page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

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