Hi, I use a thinkpad with three pointer devices:
- wsmouse0: The thinkpad's touchpad.
- wsmouse1: The thinkpad's trackpoint.
- wsmouse2: An external USB mouse.
The relevant dmesg:
OpenBSD 7.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #28: Thu Jul 9 21:12:16 MDT 2026
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pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
wsmouse1 at pms0 mux 0
pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 7.2, 0x1c0b1 0xb40000 0x0 0xd047b1
0xa0000
uhidev0 at uhub5 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Microsoft
Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0" rev 1.10/1.04 addr 4
uhidev0: iclass 3/1
ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir
wsmouse2 at ums0 mux 0
wsconsctl(8) correctly recognises each one:
# wsconsctl mouse0
mouse.type=synaptics
mouse.rawmode=0
mouse.scale=1472,5470,1408,4498,0,60,85
mouse.reverse_scrolling=0
mouse.tp.tapping=0,0,0
mouse.tp.swapsides=0
mouse.tp.disable=0
mouse.tp.edges=0.0,5.0,0.0,5.0
mouse.scaling=0.182
# wsconsctl mouse1
mouse1.type=ps2
mouse1.reverse_scrolling=0
mouse1.scaling=1.000
# wsconsctl mouse2
mouse2.type=usb
mouse2.rawmode=1
mouse2.scale=0,0,0,0,0,0,0
mouse2.reverse_scrolling=0
mouse2.scaling=1.000
The X server, however does not recognize all three, it only recognises
two: a generic /dev/wsmouse that affects both the trackpoint and the USB
mouse; and /dev/wsmouse0 for the synaptics touchpad only:
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer
(3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ /dev/wsmouse0 id=7 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ /dev/wsmouse id=8 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master
keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ /dev/wskbd id=6 [slave
keyboard (3)]
I want to configure the X device for trackpoint individually so it does
not affect the USB mouse. But that is not possible.
I have already tried to fiddle with xorg.conf(5). I tried to specify
InputClass and InputDevice sections for each device, with different
combinations of options, but nothing works: it's always a single device
for X.
How can i make X recognize each device separatedly?
--
Lucas de Sena
