Trackpoint and serial mouse simultaneously>

2001-02-17 Thread Stefan Baums
Dear list, I'm running an HP Omnibook 5500 laptop here, and would like to use, under X, the internal TrackPoint pointing device and an external serial mouse at the same time (i. e., without restarting X to make the switch). More generally, is it possible to have more than one Pointer device for t

Re: Trackpoint and serial mouse simultaneously>

2001-02-17 Thread Stefan Baums
Sorry to answer my own question, but a bit of research revealed that while Xfree86 3.3 knows only one pointer, gpm can manage multiple ones for it. My /etc/gpm.conf now has: device=/dev/psaux type=ps2 append="-M -t mman -m /dev/ttyS0" and the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config is: