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
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