On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:02, Simon Wong wrote:
> Actually, I wonder if I can have a separate X config entry to handle the
> touchpad separately?
Soitanly! It's how I use an external mouse on my laptop.
>From my XF86Config-4:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "CRT"
Screen 0 "inny" 0 0
Screen 0 "outy" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Where "Mouse0" is set up as the internal mouse, and "Mouse1" as the
external.
The one problem I have with this approach is that, if the X server
doesn't detect Mouse1 at startup, then it will disable it for that
session. I need to restart X if I want to use the external mouse.
What I'm playing with at the moment, is using gpm to poll multiple mice,
which it does quite happily with the -M parameter. I'm calling gpm
like:
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t
autops2 -Rms3
The -R option repeats events to /dev/gpmdata, which X can use at its
mouse device.
The problem with this approach, is that I haven't been able to figure
out how to get gpm to repeat scroll events from my flaming bum mouse.
:-(
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