connecting and disconnect a usb mouse

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:01:50PM -0400, Chris Gow wrote:
> 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.

Whatever the heck is Yast and why is it editing config files just
bebause you connect a usb device?  That's idiotic behaviour.

Lennart Sorensen
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