[Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

[guy keren]

perhaps try to switch to a runlevel that does not have X window running.
it could be that the X window code is competing for these events - and
when you make tests, you don't want to have that.

--guy


On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:55 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:19, Yedidyah Bar-David
> <linux-il at didi.bardavid.org> wrote:
> > I have no idea about the specific mouse or issue, but other places you
> > can check are:
> >
> > 1. Outside of X, do
> > od -tx1 /dev/input/mice
> > then press various buttons and see what happens.
> >
> 
> Interesting approach. In fact, even buttons that _do_ work did not
> reliably give any output. However, I could get absolutely zero output
> from the buttons in question.
> 
> 
> > 2. Try playing with acpi/acpid. E.g., from the examples of acpid
> > - look at /usr/share/doc/acpid/examples/default{,.sh}
> > (or at least that's where they are on my laptop - Debian Lenny).
> > I personally managed to make "Fn F7" move between internal/external
> > monitor by playing with it and an example I once found on google -
> > I think it was this one:
> > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Sample_Fn-F7_script
> >
> > I have no idea if you can get acpi events from "normal" keys (not Fn)
> > and did not try this (yet?).
> >
> 
> Thanks, but I don't see how I could adapt that to a mouse. In any
> case, it would have to be after I get a scancode from the device
> buttons.
>