[lug] Mice

[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 22:11, Drew Lane wrote:
> Rats!
> 
> No luck getting two mice going on my computer (RH 7.2)
> 
> Now I've got the PS/2 mouse working and the USB mouse is disabled.
> 
> Here's a snippet of my XF86Config-4:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Anaconda Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Mouse0"
>     # Modified by mouseconfig
>     Driver        "mouse"
>     Option        "Device"        "/dev/mouse"
>     Option        "Protocol"        "IMPS/2"
>     Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "no"
>     Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Mouse1"
>     # Modified by mouseconfig
>     Driver        "mouse"
>     Option        "Device"        "/dev/mouse1"
>     Option        "Protocol"        "PS/2"
>     Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "off"
>     Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> I ran 'mouseconfig', but it only seems to set up one mouse...
> 
> Any other suggestions?  How do I troubleshoot this?

What do your mouse devices look like?  Here are mine:
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Jun  5 08:36 mouse ->
input/mice
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Jun  5 08:37 mouse1 ->
/dev/psmouse

For me /dev/input/mice is my usb mouse and /dev/psmouse is the ps2
mouse.  

--Michael

> 
> Is there a  way to show what is actively configured similar
> to device manager in win?
> 
> Win device manager does show the USB mouse as HID compliant.  (?)
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> 
> 
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