I found these relevant links, I'll let them do the talking: http://www.harshbutfair.org/software/multimice.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/01/4/42560 Another message said, "Just create another InputDevice entry in your XF86Config and give it a different identifier." http://www.westernlug.org/mail-archives/2001-September/001133.html (thread also says it works for keyboards... and also a gpm solution: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/June/msg00837.html (although this is older) Hmmm, so does the info-delivering agent get a shirt, if the info works? (I didn't try this myself, or come up with the solution myself of course!) Thanks, Ben On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:28:25 -0800 Hal Pomeranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I dual-boot RH7.3 on my laptop to do my SANS talks. I have a really | nice RF wireless presentation mouse with a USB interface. The only | problem is that XFree86 apparently only lets me have a single mouse | device-- thus I can use either the wireless mouse or the laptop's | internal trackpoint (PS/2 interface), but not both at the same time | (even more galling, I note that booting my Windows partition allows me | to use both devices simultaneously). | | This sucks, because while the wireless mouse is great for navigating | through slides, the pointer control is terrible. When I'm doing demos | at the keyboard, I really want to use the built-in pointing device. | | Does anybody have thoughts on hacks to get this all working under Linux? | I offer the spectacular reward of one Deer Run Associates button-down | oxford shirt to whoever has the clue I need to get this going. Cheers! | | -- | Hal Pomeranz, Founder/CEO Deer Run Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Network Connectivity and Security, Systems Management, Training _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
