[lug] Dual mice under X?

[D. Stimits]

"Bonnell, Doug" wrote:
> 
> A few more details....
> 
> It appears that my notebook (Dell Latitude) "switches"
> mice. The touchpad will stop functioning when an external
> PS/2 mouse in plugged in. The external mouse works without
> any X config changes. Unplugging the external mouse allows
> the touchpad to start working again.
> 
> This isn't surprising, since the touchpad shows itself
> as a PS/2 mouse.
> 
> As for an external USB mouse (or serial mouse), this might
> be made to work using gpm. According to posts archived at
> Deja, gpm can be configured for multiple mouse devices and
> then can "repeat" the mouse data to the device /dev/gpmdata.
> X would then be configured to use /dev/gpmdata as it's
> pointing device.
> 
> I shall investigate further....
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Doug Bonnell
> 

If the notebook is doing this switching, I would suspect there is a bios
option related to it, to customize the behavior...I'd poke around the
bios and see what mouse and port options are related.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com