[wplug] two mice at once

[Jonathan S. Billings]

I have two mice configured on my desktop at work, a ps/2 mouse and a  
USB mouse.  I have in my XF86Config (these are excerpts):

Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice    "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier      "Mouse0"
         Driver          "mouse"
         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
         Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "no"
         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier "Mouse1"
         Driver	"mouse"
         Option	"Device" 		"/dev/psmouse"
         Option	"Protocol"		 "IMPS/2"
         Option	"Emulate3Buttons"	 "no"
         Option	"ZAxisMapping"	 "4 5"
EndSection



On Monday, Jul 21, 2003, at 15:57 America/New_York, John Harrold wrote:

> Sometime in July Vanco, Donald assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
> | No - I meant that I've never tried it with USB mice at all - but  
> certainly a
> | USB-to-PS/2 adapter would seem to resolve any issues (provided, of  
> course,
> | there are no issue _now_ with that being functional).  Some laptops  
> just
> | don't like having both devices tweaked at once - I don't know that  
> the OS
> | has any power over the hardware (or vice-versa).
>
> i see. well i think for him it's an os thing. i mean they both function
> fine at the same time in windows. i think it's just a configuration  
> thing.
> i'm not sure how to specifiy two pointers in the XF86Config file.
>
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