Middle button not working with Creative Notebook Optical mouse

Toralf Lund toralf at procaptura.com
Fri May 6 14:35:38 UTC 2005


Wolfgang wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:59 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Wolfgang wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>- Toralf
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>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.
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Yes you have. I originally had "Emulate3buttons=NO", and the middle 
button didn't work.

>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.
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>Wolf
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