mouse protocol selection?

[Matthias Urlichs]

imps/2 doesn't work for people with >5 button mice (counting the wheel as three
buttons).

Check whether explorerps/2 would work for more people, and/or consider using evdev.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 8312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 11660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Martin Alderson (martinalderson)]

What info do you need? I have quite a few mice I could use...

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Basically, run with ExplorerPS/2 and 'Buttons 7' or something, and see whether
you get the expected behaviour on all mice. Basically, the scroll wheel, and
all the buttons should always function -- we need to find a base config which
will allow us this, and also to use as many other buttons as possible.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 13895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 14595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Kai F. Lahmann (kl)]

at least on i386 setting the protocol to "auto" seams to be a good solution. This is used in knoppix with very good results.

The button number can't be autodetected, so just set it a bit higher. 16 should be enough for the next time? (that means 12 real buttons + 2D-wheel)
Now we set the ZAxisMapping on the last 2 ("15 16") of them and use xmodmap to get it back to 4/5:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 4 5" (we need to get shure, this line will be executed, else the wheel will be broken!)

The real configuration for buttons 6...16 is now done with imwheel.

[Hidde Brugmans (hcbrugmans-deactivatedaccount)]

My back and forward buttons are not working at default on a recent colony3
breezy dist-upgraded daily.
It's an USB Microsoft Intellimouse with 7 buttons.

Should back and forward work?

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

*** Bug 24469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Alwin Garside (yogarine)]

It seems that serial mice won't even work...

See http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19626

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

I have the same problem.

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" with a 'Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer' mouse.

The navigation buttons on the left of the mouse, for forward/back does not work.
They're mapped wrong.

The back-button does paste the text in clipboard.
The forward-button does right-click.

This was reported in 2004, and it is still not fixed!