X.org no longer sees extra buttons?

[İsmail Dönmez]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:07, David Sharp wrote:
> On 9/28/05, İsmail Dönmez <ismail at uludag.org.tr> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I got a Microsoft mouse with one scroll wheel and two side buttons. And I 
have
> > to following configuration in xorg.conf :
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >         Driver      "mouse"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >         Option      "Buttons" "7"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > Now the thing is xev no longer shows/prints an event when I press side
> > buttons. But the same configuration works fine with Xorg 6.8.2. So I guess
> > either something is broken or config stuff is changed. Ideas?
> 
> it seems that the only way to acheive this is to use
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> and then use xmodmap to reverse the buttons:
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

This solution works, thanks. But my old solution worked fine before. So I 
guess something is broken elsewhere.

Regards,
ismail