Use 2 Mice with xorg?

nicedreams · 10-23-2005, 05:36 PM

I'm using Ubuntu which uses xorg.

I have a PS/2 mouse and a Serial mouse that is attached to my wireless keyboard.

I want to be able to use both my PS/2 mouse and my Serial mouse at the same time.

I really want it to detect if the PS/2 is pluged in or the Serial is pluged in so I can use either or, or both together.

I configure this machine in my room and then put it in my living room to use as a media center and want the wireless serial mouse attached to the wireless keyboard to work when I'm in the living room and I want the PS/2 mouse to work when I am in my room with a wired mouse and keyboard.

jschiwal · 10-23-2005, 06:00 PM

It should work. On a laptop, there are two mice. The regular mouse and the touch pad.

You need separate "InputDevice" sections for each mouse -- with unique idenifiers. The "Screen" section will need to refer to both identifiers.

Here is the "Screen" section from my laptop's xorg.conf file:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

I don't know however if the "Mouse[3]" entry says "SendCoreEvents" because it is the second mouse, or if it is because it is a touchpad.

nicedreams · 10-23-2005, 07:56 PM

Any way you can just post your mouse config part of your xorg.conf so I can follow that? What you have in confusing me.

nicedreams · 10-23-2005, 11:26 PM

I figured it out. Thx for the help.