On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:23:34AM NZST, Douglas Royds wrote: > I did indeed disable the harddrake service last night, and it's > (largely) done the job. The good news is that there is no longer any > complaint when I start up without the USB mouse plugged in. > > The only thing that's still puzzling me is that if I start up without > the mouse plugged in, but subsequently do plug it in, nothing I can do > (including running harddrake) will inspire the machine to see the mouse. > So I have to decide whether this is going to be a mousing session before > I turn the machine on. Most irritating. > > Any further suggestions?
Have a look in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
The relevant bits are Option "CorePointer" and Option "SendCoreEvents".
The USB trackball on /dev/input/mice can come or go as often as I want
it to (assuming that hotplugging is correctly configured, more in a bit)
without concern. This is true on my desktop as it is true on my laptop.
To make sure that hotplugging is working, have a look at
/var/log/messages with tail (use tail -f). Plug in the mouse and see if
the hotplugging daemon catches and reports the event. If that doesn't
happen, report back and we'll tackle that avenue separately.
Greg
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