connecting and disconnect a usb mouse

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 21 13:00:43 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:27PM -0400, Chris Gow wrote:
> On October 20, 2004 06:39 am, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >
> > You can use 2 or more mice together. Edit the XF86Config file
> > (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or similar). Make the section shown below resemble
> > what I paste here:
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >          Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
> >          Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> >          InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> >          InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
> >          InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
> > EndSection
> >
> > The touchpad will not be disabled, you can use both (yes, this is
> > confusing). The /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 will be rewritten after each config
> > run so keep a backup copy after you make everything work. Yast will
> > typically refuse to modify files that you have changed so you may have to
> > revert to the old version to make yast work on it again.
> 
> I modified my XF86Config file as described above. But it doesn't work 
> :( Either the touchpad is active or the USB mouse is active but neither at the 
> same time. I generally try to stay away from XF86Config (too many bad 
> memories trying to get a config to work a few years back). But I noticed that 
> when I run Yast, no matter what mouse type I select, Yast always seems to 
> specify /dev/mouse as the device. On a lark I tried setting both of them to 
> the same device but that (as I expected) didn't work.  Below is a snippit of 
> the relevant parts of my config file as it stands. I got the results from 
> running Yast, changing the mouse backing up the config file, running Yast 
> again and adding in the new section and hitting CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE at KDM.

Both mice should NOT be CorePointer.  The PS/2 mouse should be core
pointer, and the USB should be set to 'AlwaysCore' or 'SendCoreEvents'
(both mean the same thing).

You can only have one CorePointer, but as many additional other devices
as you want.

Lennart Sorensen
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