good cordless mouse?

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak mjc at avtechpulse.com
Wed Nov 19 19:59:45 UTC 2008


> Yes, the middle mouse wheel functions. The back and forward buttons work 
> in Firefox as well.
> 
> However, I believe Logitech sets the default logic for something else. I 
> cheated and used Windows to configure the mouse to my liking, so that 
> may have something to do with it. It seems the mouse has an EPROM that 
> only the Windows driver can set. Stuff like the motor on the middle 
> wheel can be adjusted through the Windows driver, and it is retained for 
> as long as you have the mouse on (OS independent).

Thanks for the tip! There is a linux program that will set the eprom in 
the MX Revolution (http://goron.de/~froese/revoco). Running:

./reveco free

did the trick for me. The wheel now scrolls and middle-clicks for me, 
without any xorg.conf tweaks.

- Mike




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