Incoming from Jesse Kline:
> Quoting Peter Pankonin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > So...how do I configure the system to recognize and use both the touchpad and
> > the USB mouse?
>
> Some BIOS's have settings that disable to trackpad when you have an external
> mouse plugged in. However if this is the case, then I'm not sure why it works
> in Knoppix. I'd check your bios anyways. If you find out anything mare let me
> know because the trackpad on my laptop doesn't work either, but I have never
> spent the time to figure out why.
The trick is to tell X to use two mice, defining one as CorePointer,
and telling the other to use SendCoreEvents:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
EndSection
The second one should be the usb mouse.
Caveat: DO NOT say both of them are at /dev/psaux. I tried, thinking
it would let me use an external ps/2 mouse and my touchpad, or
whichever was found. Instead, it confused the living daylights out of
my system to the point it refused to even power on!
This is all defined by the BIOS on my system. It says it can
autodetect (which it can't), use Synaptics touchpad, or use ps/2.
Setting it to the latter appears to be the most stable/reliable.
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