You can also do it this way (I'm using this to use an external USB mouse
with an internal PS/2 touchpad):
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
You'll also need to add options in the ServerLayout section, but I can't
remember them offhand (my laptop is at home)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Newbie]2 mice and 2 pointers.
>
>
>
> Yes. Have a read of my xf86AceCad.so and XF86Config-4 post.
>
> I managed to get a PS/2 mouse and a USB tablet working (but
> not how I want
> exactly)
>
> You can use /usr/sbin/gpm (read the manual for gpm - pay
> attention to the
> options: -R (which you need), -M , -t .
> And you will need to know which /dev/entries are used by your mice.
>
> You will need to modify your /etc/XF86Config file or
> /etc/XF86Config-4 file
> depending on which version of Xfree you have ( version 4.x
> requires the latter
> under Red Hat anyway.) Find the section that specifies the
> dev entry for your
> mouse and replace it with /dev/gpmdata - this is a FIFO pipe
> that is written
> to by gpm - providing that you use the -R option.
>
> Here is the relevent section of my (XFree v4.2) config file:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> # Modified by mouseconfig
> Driver "mouse"
> #Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" #JL
> #Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option "Protocol" "mousesystems" #JL
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> To control gpm - in Red Hat anyway, there is a file called
> gpm which is
> actually a script (as well as the binary in /usr/sbin) . It
> is in /etc/init.d
> This is used to start and stop the gpm binary.
>
> ./gpm stop
> ./gpm start
>
> Changes made to this script will preserve behaviour across boots.
> Make a backup of both your XF86Config files and the gpm
> script so that if
> something goes wrong, you can put it back while in console mode.
>
> Note that Control-Alt-Backspace will re-start an X server.
> Control-Alt-F1 will get you a console window.
>
> gpm will allow the mouse to operate in the console window,
> and the use or the
> -R option feeds the mouse output to /dev/gpmdata, so if Xfree
> is correctly
> told to use this (with a protocol of "mousesystems"), then
> your X apps will
> also be controlled by both mice.
>
> I am looking for a way to make both the tablet and the mouse
> work under X
> without using gpm.
>
> Have a read of that gpm script and note that it sources
> another file which
> take values as environment variables. This is /etc/sysconfig/gpm.
> Modify that file. - Probably the OPTIONS section to add your
> other device etc.
>
> I found a bug in the gpm script which prevented it from
> setting the MOUSETYPE
> Here is the corrected code.
>
>
> # Jeremy Lee 05-sept-01 - I think this is a mistake
> # - this should be setting
> # the MOUSETYPE if is is NOT defined already - as a default
> # As it stood, MOUSETYPE was always /dev/mouse.
> # (old line:)
> # if [ -n "$DEVICE" ]; then
> # (new, corrected line:)
> if [ -z "$DEVICE" ]; then
> DEVICE="/dev/mouse"
> fi
>
> Without further information, its hard to help. You will need to supply
> more details about your mice, and the ports that they use.
>
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:17, you wrote:
> > Has anyone had success getting 2 mice and 2 pointers to
> work at the same
> > time? I would like to be able to use 2 mice to mix music.
> >
> > TIA.
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