Change mouse while Running X

startail · 03-27-2003, 10:13 AM

I'm using a laptop with Gnome and RH8 and my problem is that if I start the computer w/o a mouse I get the laptop toutchpad (that's good) but when I later want to use my USB mouse (if I hook the computer up to a screen and external keyboard/mouse) I have to reboot the computer to make it find it.

How do I do this without having to restart the computer or X ?
Is it possible somehow ?

cnjohnson · 03-27-2003, 06:38 PM

I don't believe that RH8's kernel supports "hotplugging," yet. Dunno 'bout RH9.

Cheers--
Charles

Aussie · 03-27-2003, 09:49 PM

Have a look at the linux-hotplug page. Slackware 9.0 has hotplug support for usb, pci and pcmcia.

startail · 03-28-2003, 07:50 AM

.I have hotplug installed on my box, it was installed with the distro apparently.

But the only file in /etc/hotplug/usb is usbcam