mouse button mapping

[dep]

well.

fixing the DRI-D monitor problem will wait a bit, because it involves 
recompiling some kernel modules, sort of, to incorporate some ati code 
for the DRI-D registers. which means it will involve a fairly anguished 
day in which i predict things that did work will get broken, even if 
backed up and restored, and i imagine that for part of the time i'll be 
weeping for answers via the notebook machine. can't wait.

but victory in a minor issue has become mine: i got xplanet with my 
nifty 19-meg moon map (thanks, nasa!) to again render realtime moon 
phases, updated hourly, to my screen background. i've done this since 
kde-1.0, and everytime it is a struggle to set up, partly because kde 
keeps changing config files and partly because the good people at 
xplanet keep changing command names. (i cheated -- i went to an earlier 
version, which does perfectly what i want done.)

so i've set for today what i think is a modest task. i have a kensington 
expert mouse trackball. it has four buttons and is connected to the 
ps/2 socket. kensington are fine people who are very loyal to their 
customers, but they have not done whatever is necessary (or else 
hackers have not done whatever is necessary, i don't know which) to 
bring their dandy mouse software to linux. which means it's a complete 
crapshoot figuring out what the four buttons will do. for years, i've 
somehow managed to get it to work such as the two left buttons are 
mapped as lmb, the two right as rmb. this is fine with me. but this 
install, the bottom left is lmb, the bottom right is rmb, and the top 
two, left and right, are both mapped as center buttons. having grown 
accustomed to having two right and two left, which is very convenient 
depending on what i'm doing, having two of them act as the middle 
button is causing a world of inconvenience. i've never used the undo 
command so much in my life.

now. somewhere hidden in the bowels of this suse-9.1 is a configuration 
file that will allow me to put things right again. i have searched all 
over the drive for it. i cannot find it.

anybody know what i can edit to tame my mouse again?

thanks.
-- 
dep

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