HOWTO: Get a logitech marble mouse to work w/scroll and more

This bit of information was taken from a post at the ubuntu forums. It worked for me, enjoy!
Modify your Xorg.conf/XF86Config file to have this in the mouse section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "MarbleMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 8 3 6 7"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeout" "300" # msec
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "6"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
here is the exact post on the ubuntu forums.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … stcount=21

Hotplugging now automatically sets up the small buttons as forward/back.  Put an fdi in /etc/hal/fdi/policy as the wiki states, but after restarting hal and xorg only the left and right mouse buttons work.  Tried replacing "Logitech USB Trackball" with "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse" for the hell of it, no change.  Any ideas?
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.product" string="Logitech USB Trackball">
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">9</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

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