Multiple Mice?

sharky44 · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 48 Location: USA

Hi. I've installed Gentoo on my IBM ThinkPad A22m this week, and (with a few glitches along the way, of course) have it working pretty well.

My question is: I have basically two mice -- the trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard, as well as an external USB mouse. It would be very convenient if both of them were functional at the same time. I can get either one to work fine by itself in X, but not both. Here's the relevant portions of my XF86Config file:

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# TrackPoint
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

# USB Mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

# This is where the problem lies, I believe:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

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With this configuration, only the USB mouse works. If I change the line about the mouse to:
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
then the trackpoint works. BUT - If I, say, put both mouse lines in at the same time, only the first one listed works correctly.

Let me know if anyone has had any luck with this. Thanks :-)

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Out of curiosity, what are /dev/mouse and /dev/input/mouse linked to? (ls -l)
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ElCondor · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 4:46 pm Post subject:

here the config that works, both touchpad (equals to trackpoint in config) and usb-mouse at the same time:

sharky44 · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 48 Location: USA

Thanks, it's working now. This is what I was trying to do:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

But taking your suggestion, ElCondor, this is working great. Thanks:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

And, just to satisfy your curiousity, kanuslupus: :-)

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jul 13 05:46 /dev/mouse -> misc/psaux
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Dec 31 1969 /dev/input/mice

Thanks for your help!!!

ElCondor · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 9:48 pm Post subject: