Hi all, I finally bit the bullet and put 8.2 on my Vaio - ACPI seems to be broken (or partially broken), but I can worry about that later. In the meantime .. I have a USB mouse. When I plugged the mouse in under KDE it was automatically detected (shades of Windows ;-) and I was prompted to configure it, which I did. The mouse worked fine. When I unplugged it, the built in pointer was no longer working. It still wasn't working after a reboot. Using the USB mouse I was able to select the built in pointer again .. Ideally I'd like to able to use both devices at the same time so that I can use either or both .. does anybody know how I can do this?? (I've just upgraded from a previous linux install where I had both working together properly - but YaST doesn't appear to be doing this in the XF86Config file and I'm wondering if there's an easier way) Cheers, sjb
Try using Sax (or is it Sax2?). It has options to add multiple mice, but as I only use one at time, I don't know if it will work or not for what you need. On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 11:15, sjb wrote:
Hi all,
I finally bit the bullet and put 8.2 on my Vaio - ACPI seems to be broken (or partially broken), but I can worry about that later.
In the meantime .. I have a USB mouse. When I plugged the mouse in under KDE it was automatically detected (shades of Windows ;-) and I was prompted to configure it, which I did.
The mouse worked fine.
When I unplugged it, the built in pointer was no longer working. It still wasn't working after a reboot. Using the USB mouse I was able to select the built in pointer again ..
Ideally I'd like to able to use both devices at the same time so that I can use either or both .. does anybody know how I can do this??
(I've just upgraded from a previous linux install where I had both working together properly - but YaST doesn't appear to be doing this in the XF86Config file and I'm wondering if there's an easier way)
Cheers,
sjb
Ty C. Mixon wrote:
Try using Sax (or is it Sax2?). It has options to add multiple mice, but as I only use one at time, I don't know if it will work or not for what you need.
I tried SaX2 .. it added another entry in XF86Config, but it didn't work because it (or, more likely, I) selected the wrong protocol. So I decided to hack around with the XF86Config manually and got it working like this .. Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Name" "USB-Mouse;PS/2" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection Both the onboard pointer and USB mouse now work together and the pointer continues to work after removing the mouse. 1 niggle down ... 1001 to go ;-) sjb
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