[Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

[Dotan Cohen]

Hi all, first off I must confess that this is a crosspost. I posted a
similar question to the Debian list, then to the Fedora list, but it's
not getting very far and I know that there are some smart folks here
who could probably help.

I have a nice new Teac OX-1100 mouse with two extra multimedia buttons
that supposedly perform the Zoom functions in Windows. When I try to
get the scancodes with "xev", "xbindkeys -k", "showkey", or "showkey
-s" then I see no output. There are some other functional keys on this
mouse which also show no output with those tools, such as the side
scroll feature, so I suspect that there must be _some_ way to get the
codes.

Other than Xev, Xbindkeys, and Showkey, what tools can I use? I
specifically bought this mouse because of the location of the two
extra keys, as I have a manual disability and cannot use the special
keys of regular mice.

This is the rodent:
✈ganymede:~$ grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    15.197] (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
[    15.289] (II) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: Found 1
mouse buttons
[    15.289] (II) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000:
Configuring as mouse
[    15.292] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (/dev/input/event2)
[    15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Applying
InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[    15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Applying
InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: always reports core events
[    15.292] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found 9 mouse buttons
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found relative axes
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found absolute axes
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Found keys
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[    15.300] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: Configuring as keyboard
[    15.300] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: YAxisMapping:
buttons 4 and 5
[    15.300] (**) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse:
EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout:
200
[    15.300] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse" (type: KEYBOARD)
[    15.301] (II) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: initialized for
relative axes.
[    15.301] (WW) MLK OX-1100 wireless Laser Mouse: ignoring absolute axes.
[    15.301] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MLK OX-1100
wireless Laser Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)


However, 10 of the 12 buttons work, not just the 9 that it found. I've
tried to google a picture of the mouse, I see no info on Teac mice
even on the Teac website. The buttons are "zoom" buttons that I
suppose are activated by a Windows driver on the OS that the package
states that it "supports".

Thanks in advance for any advice on how to continue!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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