On Mon 04 Oct 04, 8:52 AM, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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 wasn't trying to get the device files correct -- you may be right, but I was more interested in explaining, in general terms, what he needs to do in order to do what he wants to do. :) My suggestion is correct, but he needs to figure out the device names. Pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
