Dave Margolis wrote:
Hello,

I have an IBM thinkpad with an _eraser head_ mouse. I like the eraser head and I've grown rather fond of it over the years (I had an old toshiba laptop with the same mouse before). However, every once and I while I like to plug in my USB scroll mouse...

So here's my question: Is there a USB insertion script somewhere that I can add a line or two to re-point /dev/mouse (currently points to /dev/psaux, would need to point to /dev/input/mice)? Would this kind of think require hotplug? I don't have hotplug turned on. Also, this would need to work in the reverse, if possible, upon removal.

Thanks,
Dave


I have a laptop with a touchpad which always "just works" as a ps/2 mouse on /dev/psaux. Most of the time I also have a usb wheel mouse plugged in. They can both work simultaneously with a proper XF86Config:


Section "ServerLayout"
        ...
        InputDevice     "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice     "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection
...
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse0"
        Driver  "mouse"
        Option  "Protocol"    "PS/2"
        Option  "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
        Option  "Emulate3Buttons"     "yes"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "DevInputMice"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option          "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

I am using devfs and hotplug, which I don't know much about. I assume they take care of detecting whether the usb mouse is plugged in or not.

HTH,
Jonathan
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