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USB Mouse and Trackpad Mouse problems

I have problems in configuring both the USB mouse and Trackpad to work. I do not want only one of them to work, so that there is not need to re-configure the hardware whenever i unplug or plug in the USB mouse.

I've searched the forums and googled, but came up with nothing that worked.

Here's what i tried

# Touchpad PS/2 Mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

# USB Mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[2]"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
...
Section "ServerLayout"
...
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[2]" "SendCoreEvents"
...
EndSection

btw, i'm running on a Acer TravelMate 611TXV. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Now, I was under the impression that you can have multiple "ServerLayout" sections. Each one needs to have a line:
Identifier "Some Text Here"

Here's a quote from my XFree86 configuration file:

Quote:

# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.

Ideally, you'd have:

Quote:

XFree86
. . .
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "USB"
InputDevice "Mouse[2]" "CorePointer"
. . .
End Section

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Tablet"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
. . .
End Section
. . .

Then to start X with the USB enabled, type startx /// or with the tablet startx -layout Tablet

If that helps, the button affero begs you to be clicked

Here you go..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...217#post162217

Not really sure why I made that many posts out of it but it's all there

what is gpm?

typed it at the command line but it was an invalid command

GPM (General Purpose Mouse) is a mouse server for the console and xterm, with sample clients included (emacs, etc).

you might want to get it, I have never heard of not having gpm.

It should solve your problem

I had a few problems with the Thinkpad pointer and USB mouse. It was easily fixed.

With RedHat 8.0, all that I had to do was install RedHat with no mouse connected. I just used the Pointer throughout the install with no problems. Once the install was completed, I just switched the correct mouse driver and everything has been perfect ever since!

The pointer and mouse both work at the same time. When I pull out the mouse, the pointer still works without probs.

you must have both mice configured if your using an external usb mouse, if it's ps/2 then it does not matter.