using 8 button mouse on suse 10

I have this problem regarding the use of a 8 button mouse ( with one whee)
on suse 10.

As I have noticed, my wheel seems to work fine.Yet, when I tried to check on
YAST, some of the buttons are doing thesame functions as the other buttons.
This is redundancy now.

What I'd like to do is to bind some keys for my mouse for the buttons to be
userful. For example, this "back" and "forward" button. In windows, this is
used to go back and forward when browsing webpages, but as for suse 10, I
can't seem to get this working . Now, how do I configure the mouse buttons
to get it to work properly. Or, if there's a chance for me to bind keys like
"alt-l" , then that'd be great. I just want to make the other buttons
useful.

My mouse is A4tech Outlook 8k. Please posts your replies here.

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