Hi,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
an apparently trivial question. On my ThinkPad 600x, I can only use
the internal track-point with X11. If I attach an external PS/2 mouse,
it does not get used. I don't have xorg.conf, I am accustomed that
with other OS's it "just works". I also tried plugging it in earlier,
even at boot time. The light of the optical mouse works, thus it gets
powered up.
let me clarify. If I stick in the external mouse at boot time, it will
be recognized and only the external mouse will work (it actually stopped
working with a some error messages I will report below) and the internal
trackpoint si inactive, even if i remove the external mouse.
If I start with no mouse, the internal trackpoint works, but not the
external mouse.
With both setups, dmesg spits out the same:
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
I'm accustomed from other OS's (not just windows, but also Linux,
FreeBSD.. I will check NetBSD) that I can just plug-in/plug-out an
external mouse, This is very convenient in laptop usage. I know it
doesn't work with desktops, but with laptops yes.
Or could this be a limitation not of the OS but of this particular laptop?
On a forum I found this (referred to a guy tryin gto attach a keyboard
and not a mouse)
"The problem is that the port on the 600 series is a mouse port and not
internally wired as a true PS2 port.
You can overcome the problem by either using a PS2 splitter or a USB
keyboard."
Is this bogus or could this be a problem?
Riccardo
