[L3mMinG (old)]

Well on my gentoo install I could bind mouse4 and mouse5 in quake3 for my mx500 thumb buttons. Now I'm running debian and although I'm using the same xorg.conf file and xev reports the thumb buttons as button 8 and button 9, urban terror (both incarnations and vanilla quake3) only wants to report both thumb buttons as KP_EQUALS. Any ideas on how I can get those back to mouse4 and mouse5 (or kp_equals and something else for the other thumb button so I can bind both to seperate commands) ?

[undead]

It sounds like you're using the id software quake3 which was limited to 5 buttons IIRC.

Try messing around with xmodmap to switch the button assignments around.  I had a post about it somewhere in this forum area.

[MrBecks (old)]

Do you use event interface driver?

[mitsubishi]

The 'modern' way is to use the evdev driver with only 'Name' and 'Phys' options found in /proc/bus/input/devices

e.g. for my g7 logitech:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "g7"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option          "Name"  "Logitech USB Receiver"
        Option          "Phys"  "usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0"
EndSection

Notice a 'Device' option isn't required and actually not adviced (by a man page) (didn't seem to work with udev's redirections) and 'Name' is a kernel identifier from /proc.

Not very dynamic ('Phys' depends on where's plugged). If you have only once the 'Name' option from /proc (g7 has it twice) you may get away only with that option.

Then you may need an xmodmap line, e.g. here I run from ~/.kde/Autostart/mine.sh for that mouse:

/usr/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 9 3 4 5 7 6 2 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2
0"

edit: I know, it doesn't look that right and tidy and changes from version to version and distro to distro, but it seems evdev and X input is work in progress so what can you do.