Configuring a 5 Button Intellimouse to work in FC

Requirements

• 5-Button Intellimouse
• Fedora Core
  

Doing the work

1. Open a terminal.
   
2. Switch to the super user account.

   [sglaser@compaqlaptop ~]$ su --login
   

3. Change directory to the X11 directory.
   

   [root@compaqlaptop ~]# cd /etc/X11/
   

4. Create a backup of the xorg.conf file.
   

     [root@compaqlaptop X11]# cp -rp xorg.conf xorg.conf.pre.5buttonmouse
   

5. Open the xorg.conf file in you favorite editor and make the following changes to the section "InputDevice"
   

     Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Mouse0"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" 
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option "Buttons" "7"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
      EndSection 
   

6. Change to the directory /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
   

   [root@compaqlaptop X11]# cd /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
   

7. Using your favorite editor create a file in this directory named mouse.sh with the following information and save it:
   

   #!/bin/sh 
   # /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse.sh 
   # Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse 
   xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
   

8. Now that file needs to be made executable.
   

    [root@compaqlaptop xinitrc.d]# chmod +x mouse.sh
   

9. The next step is pretty easy log out of you session and at the login screen press CTRL+BACKSPACE this combination will restart the x-server.  If this does not make the mouse function properly a reboot may be required.

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