From with in Maya you can adjust your shortcut keys. I believe the mouse functions are included.
In SuSE it's /Start Menu/System/YAST/Hardware/Mouse/ (Select 3 button/wheel intellimouse). I can't remember how to do this in RedHat and even if it's an option in Fedora. Though you should have some sort of Control Panel interface in other distros.
www.kde-apps.org. Do a search for mouse utilities. I found a handy tool called Media-Detect that helps to configure not only specialty keyboard/mice but also other program/tools.
Why can't anyone read the damn Installation manual??? This question is asked all the time. You would think you could spend 5 seconds to look in it. I'm not trying to be an [censored], but when the question is asked every other week, it gets, well annoying.