Gentoo program suggestion?

xelion · Post by **xelion** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:38 pm

Kay, so i got this fancy smancy mouse, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000, and I need a program for Gentoo Linux to setup the buttons, as the defaut is screwy and the scroll button makes the webpage go forward/backward instead of the screen up/down. So yeah, thanks.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:18 pm

The best thing I can say to do is go to the gentto's community forums and ask if there is a driver for it that can be installed via tar (source) or portage. Otherwise you're stuck with a glitch mouse. As for the scroll wheele button, go to (I'm assuming you're using KDE) KDE control panel and go to device configurations. That should give you the ability to change it some, but really what I learned was just not use the scroll wheele button, just the scroll wheele.

xelion · Post by **xelion** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:21 pm

well yeah that's what I mean, the scroll wheel moves the webpage, not the button, and where is the KDE control panel?

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:55 pm

Have you tried going into the x config file and changing it around?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:55 pm

Ok you can either get to it from the K menu (its the big button that acts like the start menu) or you should be able to get to it by right clicking on your desktop. This is what it should look like.

Hope this helps you out.

xelion · Post by **xelion** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:01 pm

Okay, thats where I was at, just making sure we were talking abotut he same thing. Nothing in there would help me though, so I guess I'm gonna go poke around in the xorg conf file...