On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:03:32PM +0100, Christoph Gösgens wrote: > > I've got a problem with my mouse. Most likely something hasn't been > configured correctly yet, but i can't find what it might be. I hope you > can help. > > I've got two computers at my desk. A fairly new one, and an older one. > Each has got their own screen, and my Keyboard and Mouse are connected > to them through an USB+PS/2 KVM switch. The Mouse in question is a > Logitech MX510. > > A short while ago i switched from the ImPS/2 Driver to the event driver > on the newer desktop. Whenever i now switch to the old desktop, the new > computer "loses" the mouse. I see these Messages in the Xorg.log: > (EE) Configured Mouse: Read error: No such device > (EE) Configured Mouse: Failed to reopen device after 10 attempts. > (II) Configured Mouse: Close > I then have to restart X to get the mouse back. Needless to say that's > quite annoying :> > > If i am on a tty, i still see (like it used to be) the USB Disconnect > messages, and when i switch back the USB Connect messages. With the old > driver, the Mouse Device would be re-opened and with half a second delay > or so, i could use it again. > > This is how it's configured in the xorg.conf: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "evdev" > Option "CorePointer" > # Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mx510" > Option "Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" > EndSection
short answer - don't do that. long answer: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/07/input-configuration-in-nutshell.html note that some bits are a bit stale already, especially in regards to grabbing the devices. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
