need help setting up dual mouse

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

I have usbmouse as mouse0, which is my primary mouse and works fine.......I decided to add an optical ps/2 mouse for gaming purposes, as mouse1, /dev/mouse.............in X log file I get this error:

(EE) Mouse1: Unknown protocol "PS/2:"
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1"

I've tried with IMPS/2 as well with same error...........funny considering if i cat /dev/mouse I get all the garbage I should be getting by moving the optical, but doesn't work outside of cat

mouse0 is CorePointer "usb"
mouse1 is SendCoreEvents "ps/2"

any suggestions??? will post XF86Config file if neccessary but hoping not to have to (I'm lazy

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TIA

Cloim · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 99

duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

This might help. On my laptop I have two mice: the trackpad and a USB mouse, and I can use either or both at the same time. Here's some snippets from my XFree86Config file.

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

LMAO......that's exactly how mine looks.......oh well maybe a bug with my system who knows.......Thanks for the responses

OdinsDream · Veteran Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 1057

duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

Sequentious · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 1:39 pm Post subject:

On my laptop, I set up X to use the built in (ps/2) trackpoint, and also have a USB mouse for when i actually want to do things with the pointer.

Heres my screen section (the usb mouse is cheapmouse)

stingray72 · n00b Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Atlanta, GA

shadowknight, I don't know if it would make a difference but I used

"AlwaysCore" instead of "SendCoreEvents" when I set up the 2nd mouse.

Sequentious · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 3:13 pm Post subject:

As I said in my post above, try using /dev/input/mice for your usb mouse.

Also: are both your mice USB?
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OdinsDream · Veteran Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 1057

Update: My previous post about having the keyboard stop responding...

...Turns out all I needed to do was have the mouse and keyboard (both PS/2) plugged in before I power on the system.

My BIOS has some auto-recognize thing, that will detect which port the mouse is plugged into, and apparently this was causing trouble when I added the mouse when the system was on.

The X configuration quoted in my last post works flawlessly for having a USB and PS/2 mouse (both scroll-wheel) set up.

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

thanks for the input guys......i've changed my config to this:

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

ok looking back at the code last posted, look carefully at the mouse1 section it says "PS/2: instead of "PS/2"...........I swapped out mouse1 and mouse0 and changed back to SendCoreEvents instead of AlwaysCore.............all's good now thank for the help :oops:

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

almost all was good to enable scroll on both mice I changed "PS/2" to "IMPS/2" for both mice.........to avoid any confusion this is what the relevant sections look like in my XF86Config file:

Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

OdinsDream-
For future reference, ps/2 devices are not hot-pluggable. You can get away with it in many cases but you aren't supposed to.

broschi · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:17 am Post subject: