On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, at 2:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Remember the PS/2 port is not hot-swap safe. > > Most laptops have electronics specifically designed to handle hotswap for > PS/2. I won't say "all", but I'd be surprised to find one that did not. >
Ah, that explains why both devices can function simultaneously. > Myself, I have solved this kind of problem in the way that Derek Martin > suggests. There can be only one PS/2 "auxiliary" device, so the laptop's > electronics have to be responsible for multiplexing the PS/2 signals. Not > so with USB. By using only one pointer as a PS/2 pointer, and the rest as > USB pointers, the kernel and/or XFree can handle multiple inputs and > multiple protocols. > I'm trying this approach, it is simplest. I like simple. > I think Bill Mullen's idea of using multiple XFree configuration options > would also work, but the USB method (if the hardware allows for it) avoids > the need to specify X startup options. While I could certainly see how this one would work okay it's just not automated enough for me. Stuff like this should be possible to write code to handle so that I don't have to fool with it. Guess that's why I write software, so I don't have to do stuff manually! -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
