Re: Using more than 5 buttons in XFree86

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@wanadoo.fr>]

Ray Lai wrote (in a message from Tuesday 12)
 > I did a lot of digging through mailing lists and stuff but I haven't found any
 > official documents stating that there is a maximum of 5 mouse buttons avaiable
 > in XFree86.  I have a Logitech Optical Mouseman Wheel and it has two buttons on
 > the top, a mouse wheel which is also a button, and a thumb button, making that
 > a total of 6 buttons, including scroll-up and scroll-down on the mouse wheel.
 > I would like to use all 6 buttons if possible, has anyone gotten it to work in
 > XFree86 3.3.6?
 > 

It's not possible (at least without a significant amount of work) in
XFree86 3.3.6. The reason is that the mouse in the standard X hardware
interface has a fixed limit of 5 buttons max, and the mouse driver in
XFree86 3.3.6 only uses the standard X hardware interface.

In XFree86 4.0.x however, the mouse drivers are now using the Xinput
extension an can have any numbers of buttons. So you may want to check
XFree86 4.0.1 (or 4.0.2 which should be released before the end of
this year if all goes well). 

					Matthieu