Re: Using more than 5 buttons in XFree86

["Steve Wingate" <srwingat@gte.net>]

There is a Linux how-to for getting all 7 buttons of an Intellimouse
Explorer working at www.linuxnewbie.org . I should it should work for
OpenBSD. I have never tried it.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Lai" <raylai@mailandnews.com>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:09 PM
Subject: Using more than 5 buttons in XFree86


> 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?
>
> -Ray-
>
>