Two mice under Mandrake 10.1/KDE
 

Not a question, just wanted to post this info up for hopefully other newbs to copy/paste.

Here's the deal - building a box for the living room (eventually a HTPC). Currently have a PS/2 mouse, and a serial cordless mouse.
Spent 3 hours trying to get them both working before stumbling across a couple great threads.


The long and short of it, I ended up playing with the XF86Config-4 file for a while. I also got really good at reading the XF86Free.0.log file, and using vi *cringe* to 'fix' what I had just goofed.

Here's the important part from my XF86Config for future use:



Hope this is in the right place, and I hope this saves someone some time and aggravation.!


bullet:newbie:

why you emulate three buttons on both? you really don't have any wheel mouse?

that's what i'd really cringe about!

so you don't like vi -- you know others are avail -- nano / pico (comes with pine) umm... jed?

currently, I don't have 3 buttons on either - eventually, I'll have one mouse (ps2) running through a KVM switch for a semi-remote admin type thing... the wireless controller has three buttons, but the way it's wired, the top button cliks either left or right... but the signal is read as one button...

as for vi vs whatever... I personally like vi, but I know a lot of people have a lot of different opinions.... :D


when I get this set up in Alaska (8 months away), I'm sure I'll be trying to figure it all out again, but untill then... it's working!




bulletfodder

speaking of kvm's .. to get off topic a little, let's see if anyone who happens to be watching would know something here:

I've used a kvm for years, and loved it: a 4-port IO gear ps/2 dealie. I recently thought it'd be nice to share usb devices as well, and got a new usb desktop setup (keybd/mouse). here's what i ran into: 1) the usb kvm switch (by cables to go) shares all the usb devices constantly. That doesn't allow me to share keybd/mouse. 2) the usb kvm only accepts ps/2 keyboard, forcing usb mouse for consoles. 3) the usb kvm only accepts keyboard hotkeys to change terminal from the ps/2 keyboard.

the end result is rather than nice interoperability of devices, i got some crazyness involving use of multiple mouses/keyboards to get one monitor.

--just thought i'd bring it up since you mentioned kvm's, and perhaps someone has had a better experience with a usb kvm. didn't feel like starting a new thread, so i appologize for tangenting.

tangents are good, methinks


I've got a Belkin 2 port PS/2 dealy... it has USB, but apparently, that's NOT for USB devices, rather, it's so Windoze knows it's hooked into a KVM rather than a real keyboard....


What's the easiest way to support multiple computers using multiple USB devices? Since this one was free, I'm not complaining much :p , but I am curious... An apparently, I need to check this thread more often than every other day - this forum get's a LOT of traffic.... :cool:



andrew