No insult intended; having two mice is not uncommon (say, a trackpad and an external mouse). I just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding.Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:
I've gotten X-Windows to come up if I use /dev/input/mice (saw it
somewhere on a webpage), but it still tells me the mouse is in use if I use /dev/psaux
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:
Mouse is a PS2 mouse. X came up, but I could not move the pointer.
I found a 9-pin. X works with it.
I swear that I did have the PS2 mouse and X working together previously. The machine was woody at the time.
I'd really like to get the PS2 mouse working. I've got 2 computers w/ 1 KVM switch. Only right now I need 2 mice...
From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You've got two mice hooked up to the machine?
Bumbleroot does not mean bumbling idiot, thank you.
Unfortutely one mouse per machine since the linux box does not want to cooperate with the PS2 mouse.
At this point, I think I'd give up on trying to get X working until the mouse works. And the best way to do that, in my opinion, is to get it working with gpm, the console mouse driver.
So I'd "apt-get install gpm" and configure it when prompted. Once it's working in gpm, you know you're 90% of the way there, and the rest is simply telling gpm and X to play nice together (repeat type=ms on gpm, and location of /dev/gpmdata in XF86Config-4).
By using the console mouse, you don't have to keep waiting 20 or 60 seconds for X to start up and then fail, and then tweak XF86Config-4 (perhaps by the tedious dpkg-reconfigure method), and then start over again. It also simplifies things, because with gpm you're "closer" to the hardware (sort of, in a way, er-m, yeah, that's it).
-- Kent
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