connecting and disconnect a usb mouse

[Chris Gow]

On October 21, 2004 09:00 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm...Okay I tried that but when I do that I get no mouse at all. Whenever I 
change my mouse between the touchpad to the USB mouse yast adds the following 
entry:

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Setting both of the mice to point to that device doesn't work it results in 
both mice not working at all (I figured something like that would happen). 
However, I noticed that near the beginning of my config file there are a mess 
load of InputDevices entries, one of which points to "/dev/usbmouse" I put 
that as my device option for the USB mouse, but when I do that, the USB mouse 
_still_ doesn't work at all and the touchpad doesn't work correctly: The 
cursor moves by itself and constantly resets itself in the lower left corner.

Is it possible that when I run yast that it not only does it change my 
XF86Config file but other device links? Which would explain (at least to me) 
why I don't have to restart X to get it to recognize the new mouse.

-- thanks
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