Side Buttons on Logitech MX310

[Bassman449]

I have been searching for several days trying to figure out how to make my side buttons work with Fedora Core 5. I have tried editing xorg.conf and mouse.sh to show a 7 button mouse with no sucess. I used xev to check and it shows my wheel as buttons 4 and 5 and the side buttons as 8 and 9. None of the buttons register as 6 and 7 and I don't have any clue why. I'm fairly inexperienced with Linux but would like to get rid of Windows, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Brian1]

Check out this link I think what you are after is using the xmodmap command.
http://www.glaurung.demon.co.uk/info...500.howto.html

Not sure howto structure the command but search here for xmodmap pointer and also on google as well.

Brian1

[pparks1]

I have that same mouse and this is what I did.

modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match this
scroll wheel and forward and back buttons should work

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "SampleRate" "800"
EndSection

[Bassman449]

That worked perfectly. Just out of curiousity why exactly does it show 10 or 11 buttons? I didn't understand that aspect but I am glad it worked. Thank you.

[AllanPen]

Thanks for that. I did a search on the MX310 and voila; you solved my little mouse problem. I wonder if this same code will work in other distros.

[pparks1]

Just as an FYI: It does work in Fedora 7