On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 09:58, Simon Wong wrote:
> Peter, can you tell me what devices you are using for the mice?
I've got an internal stick mousey thing that's PS/2, and an external USB
mouse.
> It seems on my system that both the external PS/2 mouse and the built-in
> touchpad and the pointer-stick-thingy send events to /dev/psaux.
*snip*
> The bad news is when I plug the external mouse back in things go haywire
> until I switch to a virtual console and back to X, and then move the
> external mouse so it sends a signal before the built-in ones.
The way I've understood it, PS/2 wasn't designed to be inserted/removed
with the power on. My guess is you're seeing some side effects of the
hardware being unhappy with you.
> I'm going to try and get a PS/2->USB adapter to try my external mouse
> via USB as that should certainly separate the internal and external
> pointers.
If your mouse didn't come with one, then it probably won't work with
one. The mouse is supposed to automagically detect what it's plugged in
to, and change protocols to suit.
(Somebody *please* correct me if I'm wrong, though)
> However, that will use up one of my USB ports (maybe no big deal) but it
> would be nice to know if the others can be set to different devices.
Are you using the ports for anything else? :-)
> Do you think gpm would deal with this better?
Maybe. They'll still be on the same device, but gpm might handle the
plugging/unplugging a little better.
> P.S. I have looked at many pages on the linux laptop site but have only
> found people's X configs with external USB mice.
USB is good for mice. :-)
I'd serously suggest lashing out on a new mouse. The gpm setup works
fine, and the current crop of USB rodents are dead sexy.
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