On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:10AM +0000, James Broadhead wrote: > On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, > > mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all > > other mouse devices. > > > > On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only > > take one MOUSEDEV entry at a time (as far as I know), so currently I > > have it set on /dev/input/mice. Ideally, however, I only want to use > > mouse0 and mouse2 on the console (mouse1 is actually a touchscreen and > > its output is "junk" from the point of view of the ps2 driver, and > > actually causes problems). > > > > How does one create, using udev, an input device that aggregates just > > the data from mouse0 and mouse2? > > Do you mean for X, or a /dev/ node for gpm ? Like /dev/input/most_mice ? > > For the first, this is configurable in xorg.conf. No clue about the second.
The second. Like you said, in xorg.conf I can select multiple pointer devices, so there's no need to worry about X (and in fact the X events driver is capable of dealing with the touchscreen). So yes, I would like something in the spirit of /dev/input/all_but_one_mice. Thanks W -- Willie W. Wong [email protected] Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
