On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:21:54 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote:
> On Mon 04 Oct 04, 8:13 AM, Hans W. Uhlig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Ok Ive got a laptop with bad mice and I need to be > > able to swap out to an external usb mouse. X doesent > > want to see it without me booting with it in > > this can't be correct. X will work perfectly even with no mouse. > > the key is what you specify here: > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" > InputDevice "Generic Mouse" > EndSection > > > if you simply want to ignore the built in mouse, don't make reference > to it. in your "generic mouse" inputdevice entry (or whatever you call > it) make reference to /dev/input/mice (or whatever it is on your > system) instead of/dev/psaux (or whatever it is on your system) > > > > and then > > the internal mouse go haywire(They still work on > > occasion but they are dyeing.) > > sounds like what happens when two applications read from the same > device file. > > > how can I turn off one > > mouse and turn on another in X. Ive been looking but I > > cant seem to find it and xsetmouse doesent seem to > > have any function other then listing my config file. > > as mentioned before, remove all reference to /dev/psaux in you > XF86Config, and just have one inputdevice entry using driver "mouse" > and device"/dev/input/mice". Isn't the kernel going to pick up from the PS/2 mouse data and put that on /dev/input/mice as well? That's how my XFree is configured. (Kernel 2.6.7 with psmouse compiled in.) If the hardware is dying and sending spurious events, then wouldn't /dev/input/mice get those spurious events too? Perhaps working with /dev/input/mouse0 or /dev/input/mouse1 will let you select only useful mice? But I really haven't got a clue, so if someone can explain my confusion I would appreciate it. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. "All the spots [of tzarat] that a man sees on others, are his own." -- from the Mishna, as interpreted according to the Ba'al Shem Tov
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