HOWTO: Get 7 working buttons on MX510

**lacrias** · May 8th, 2008

I just updated to Hardy 8.04 with Firefox 3 beta 5 and my buttons didn't work, even after following this guide (which worked wonderfully with firefox 2!!)

I did some researching and found this:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/...ck+and+Forward

Apparently the buttons firefox use to go back and forwards were switched from 6 7 to 8 9. If you goto that link it shows you how to set up the about:config to fix this problem.

Hope this helps

**mortem** · May 21st, 2008

lacrias saves the day!

**Alien.col** · June 26th, 2008

lacrias i luv u man...

**ryth** · September 1st, 2008

This worked great minus the "scroll up" button sending out a "back button" signal at the end, very irritating.

Another problem I have run into is that now my mouse scrolling is slow and inconsistent at best. A lot of the time scrolling the wheel results in no page movement up or down, or when it does it may go 2-3 lines and then stop even though I continue to use the scroll wheel.

Anyone else encountering this problem?

**SnowPunk98** · September 6th, 2008

I got everything working but the scroll up button (above the wheel) is also sending be back a page.

**FokkerCharlie** · September 28th, 2008

Hello!

I have a Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman, and it seems to be quite a similar setup to the MX510.

I have this in my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier 	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver 		"evdev"
	Option 		"Device" 	"/dev/input/event10"
	Option 		"Buttons" 		"10"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
	Option 		"ButtonMapping" 	"1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
EndSection

Which works fine, apart from when using the scroll buttons (not wheel), xev reports something slightly strange. It seems to think that when I use the 'up' button, I am holding button 9, and pressing button 4 repeatedly, then releasing 9. The down button is similarly mapped to 10 and 5. A rudimentary workaround is to add this to .xbindkeysrc:

Code:

#Workaround for cruise up/dn buttons mapped as 9 and 10:
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\""
    m:0x0 + b:9
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\"" 
    m:0x0 + b:10

Which worked OK in Gutsy, but doesn't seem to cut it in Hardy. It seems that for some reason, btn 9 is mapped to 'forward' in FF now. If anyone has a clever idea, I'd love to hear it.

Cheerio
Charlie