On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:55:01AM -0700, Francois BOTTIN wrote: > > --- Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a touchpad (ps2) and an external USB mouse. > > I use both mice at the same time using the -M option for pgm. I also > > set up X to get the mouse data from gpm. > > > > It works. > > > > Previously I had ps2 external mouse that was disabling the internal > > touchpad. > > > > Bye, > > Giuseppe > > > I have also a PS/2 touchpad and an external USB mouse. Formerly I also > used the -M option for gpm, but the third mouse button/wheel was not > recognized (i.e. inactive) or the third button emulation was not working > on the touchpad (only 2 buttons there) depending of the options I choose. > > I worked around that by configuring gpm to use the touchpad only (I can > cope without the mouse on the console...) and the "pointer" section of X > to /dev/gpmdata. I then added the USB mouse (/dev/input/mice) to the > "XInput" section, "Mouse" sub-section.
Does this handle mice with different protocols, because I too have the BIOS option, but usually I like to have the touchpad disabled when I have my external 3-button wireless wheel mouse plugged in. The thing is my touchpad is just a plain PS/2 mouse and my external mouses uses ImPS/2 protocol. Now I have 2 XF86Config files that I switch back and forth from and my wireless does work with plain PS/2, but then I get no wheel. So the point is is it possible to configure X (and/or gpm) to be able to use one or the other without having to switch XF86Config files and restart X (I actually have a little script that changes my XF86Config-4 symlink to either XF86Config-4.touchpad or XF86Config-4.wireless)? Dan -- Daniel E Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community...if ``hard nosed realists'' say that profit is the only ideal...just ignore them, and use copyleft all the same. -- RMS
