Comment 9 for bug 198313

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PDK (pierredekat) wrote :

If this has been marked "wontfix", does that mean that we need to file a new bug report?

Because btnx will not work on Intrepid.
http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/

So if people want to configure extra buttons on a mouse, they are going to have to create an fdi file and place it in their /etc/hal/fdi/policy directory.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config#Input%20Configuration%20with%20HAL

Unfortunately, creating an fdi file -- with precious little documentation on how to do such a thing -- is pretty much going to rule out most of us "human beings", for whom Ubuntu was supposedly created.