Can I configure two mice to work at the same time?

njschroe · 01-31-2005, 08:17 PM

I am using SuSE 9.0 Pro on my compaq presario R3000 laptop. I use the laptop as a "desktop replacement" and really only occasionally take it on the road with me. When at the office, I have a USB intelliwheel mouse configured, and I use that most of the time. However, when I want to take the computer on the road with me, I have to go into YaST and manually switch the mouse to the Aux/Port mouse so that I can use the touchpad mouse on the laptop.

My question is whether there is some way to configure both mice to work at the same time, so that when I want to go on the road I can just unplug the USB mouse and use the touchpad, without having to switch it over in YaST. It would definitely make life easier, and it would take a lot less time. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

slackie1000 · 02-01-2005, 03:42 AM

hi there,

mate, no idea about yast but i have also a laptop and work with both mice: touchpad and usb. both work parallel. i can give you the xorg.conf. no idea how suse will accept that.
here we go:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier     "X.org Configured"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice    "Generic Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

i just left the important parts. as you can figure out i work with 3 mice: IBM pointer, touchpad and the option to plug a USB.

regards

slackie1000

abisko00 · 02-01-2005, 03:48 AM

It should be no problem to add a second driver to XF86Config, using the sax2 module of Yast (Graphics Card and Monitor). I have added the synaptics driver and the USB driver and it works just fine

The 'Hardware -> Mouse' section in Yast is set to 'USB wheel mouse', which doesn't interfere with the touchpad.

njschroe · 02-01-2005, 08:07 AM

abisko00,

That makes perfect sense to me, but when I tried it, it doesn't work (the test says that the drivers aren't available). The thing that confuses me is that the mouse choices under SAX are not the same as the mouse choices under YaST. There is no Intelli/Wheel USB mouse choice under SAX, and the synaptics touchpad doesn't seem to work with my touchpad.

Under YaST, my touchpad works just fine when set to PS/2 Mouse (Aux-port).

I can tell that this is probably the way to get them both working parallel, but something is missing here.

Any other ideas?

abisko00 · 02-01-2005, 08:42 AM

Unfortunately I am not running 9.0 anymore (need to update my profile). But maybe it helps to configure the driver manually (instead of choosing preconfigured ones). So you could try to create/modify those entries in sax, one with /dev/psaux for the touchpad and another with /dev/whatever (in 9.1 this is /dev/input/mice) for USB.

Sorry I cannot help in a better way...