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Old 11-20-2003, 02:59 PM   #1
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Getting glidepoint and mouse working simultaneously


Hello everyone.
I am trying to switch over to slack 9.1 on my laptop from Redhat/Fedora . I can get my USB mouse working fine, with the scroll wheel. I can get the normal glidepoint/pad on the laptop working fine just using the default ps/2. I have not figured out how to keep from switching back and forth with mouseconfig however, so that I can use either, depending on whether or not I am docked.

Currently I just run mouseconfig and reboot to get gdm to start with the appropriate device. I am sure I can configure this, as it worked fine with redhat.
 
Old 11-21-2003, 11:15 AM   #2
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Ok,
I have figured out that both devices are working
/dev/psaux is my touchpad
/dev/input/mice is my usb mouse

So how can I configure gpm to actually use both devices ? is it possible ?

Here is my current XF86Config, I have both input devices listed but this does not work either. Currently, only the usbmouse is working.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "ps2mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
 
Old 11-21-2003, 04:30 PM   #3
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You can't. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I have never been able to get gpm to recognize both my laptop and usb mouse.
 
Old 11-21-2003, 05:15 PM   #4
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Have you tried playing around with gpm's -M option?
 
Old 11-24-2003, 08:01 AM   #5
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I have tried using the -m option and the -r option and I always get an arror that the process is already running.

I did however get both input devices running in X, so it is only on the console that I have a problem with gpm.
 
Old 11-24-2003, 08:13 AM   #6
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you've got it right, but you probably missed a line ^^
here's mine->
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier	"Mouse1"
    Driver	"mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice" 
   Identifier  "Mouse2"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option      "Protocol"      "PS/2"
   Option      "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
EndSection
#
#and in ->
#Section "ServerLayout"
# the SendCoreEvents is necessarry for the whole thing to work
Code:
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Last edited by linen0ise; 11-24-2003 at 08:15 AM.
 
  


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