On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > from time to time I remove mice and plug them in, as I move my laptop
> > around locations. Sometimes I also start my laptop without a mouse
> > plugged in, and then plug one in after boot.
>
> [snip]
>
> > I can't use the generic /dev/input/mice, (the one-for-all device)
> > because I have a synaptic driver for the touchpad
> > (/dev/input/mouse1), and "auto" for any other mouse plugged in
> > (/dev/input/mouse2).
>
> I don't see why you can't use /dev/input/mice - I have the same mouse
> setup as you and it works for me. Unless you have problematic hardware
> that is
because the touchpad has to be configured differently to the usb mice,
otherwise things like "emulate3buttons" don't always work (on the
touchpad). Also, I have different acceleration settings on different
mice, so I couldn't do that if they all used the same
"/dev/input/mice"...
> [snip]
>
> > does _anyone_ reading use X and _not_ the /dev/input/mice device? I
> > would be interested to hear from you!!!
>
> Well, fwiw, I'll give you the config I have and that works for me (with
> irrelevant bits snipped out). Maybe it'll work for you too...
[snip]
> It's been a long long time since I set this up but I believe the
> critical settings at the time were "CorePointer" and "AlwaysCore" in
> the ServerLayout
Thanks. I do indeed have CorePointer, and AlwaysCore for my various
mice - and it works, so I don't think changing the xorg.conf file will
fix it.
It's just when I unplug a working usb mouse, it won't work when I plug
it back in, UNLESS I switch to a console first.
any other ideas?
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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