Yeah, I was trying that earlier but gave up too quickly. I'll have a
looksee. Ahh, I didn't use the "SendCoreEvents" part in the InputDevice
tag. Thanks for the quick replies. For those who want to do this at some
point, you need an "InputDevice" section for /dev/input/mice and use this:
InputDevice "InputDeviceName" "SendCoreEvents"
Thanks,
Jeff
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ist vor dem Spiel --Sepp Herberger
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> > Ahhh, so in theory upgrading to 2.5 when doable would get this working
> > properly. Any ideas on how to go about hacking together
> > stuff now so that
> > the ps/2 mouse goes into the input layer?
>
> Umm .... NO, but you can configure XFree86 4 and later to use two devices
> for input, i use this on my laptop to get the trackpad and external USB
> mouse working at the same time. Can't remember how to do it but have a look
> in the USB faq/howto it covers it in detail there and will probaly
> accomplish what your after without hours of messing around with patches.
>
> Peter
>
> > ________________________________________________
> > Nach dem Spiel
> > ist vor dem Spiel --Sepp Herberger
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The USB input layer is part of a larger input layer rewrite
> > scheduled for
> > > 2.5 you can find details here. http://www.suse.cz/development/input/
> > > Basically I think the keyboard and mice and everything will
> > have default
> > > interfaces whether they are bus, ps2, serial, usb or something else.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Okay, so the input layer is all cool and stuff. Good 'nough.
> > > > Now, when I
> > > > was using the usb backport on 2.2.18, plugging in a usb
> > mouse worked
> > > > instantly as it got converted and dumped into the psaux
> > device, as I
> > > > understand it, anyway. I don't remember if the input
> > layer was around
> > > > then, but now I'm seeing that the usb mouse device gets
> > created in the
> > > > input layer and can be accessed via mouse0, etc. or through
> > > > mice. As I've
> > > > read, all of the mouse* devices get dumped into mice. This
> > > > is the same
> > > > behavior I saw on 2.2.18. However, the ps/2 mouse still
> > goes through
> > > > psaux, and only psaux. So, setting up XFree, for example, to use
> > > > /dev/psaux works and setting it to use /dev/input/mice (and
> > > > mouse0) works,
> > > > but it's only one or the other. Anyway the question
> > although it isn't
> > > > absolutely your field of maintainence is, are these thoughts
> > > > correct and
> > > > is someone already working on getting the ps/2 port to go
> > through the
> > > > input layer? I think it should go that way, and not the
> > input layer
> > > > getting merged with psaux. Thoughts? Flames?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________________________
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> > > >
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