On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:24:30AM -0600, Jack wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:10:24AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > #include <hallo.h>
> > * Jack [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 11:48:16PM]:
> > > Thanks for the hints. I have almost the same configure as yours. Would
> > > you try this for me when you by chance reboot your machine? Unplug the
> > > USB mouse, boot OS, startx, plugin the USB mouse. Does the USB mouse
> > > work right away? In my case, "cat /dev/input/mice" trick works, but
> > > the X does not detect the change.
> >
> > There is a trick to feed X with apparently valid mouse device, install
> > the hotplug package and look in its config.
> Very good hints! In the hotplug user configure file
> /etc/default/hotplug.usb X11_USBMICE_HACK is set as false by default.
> After it is Changed to true, now everything is cool.
>
> By doing that, the input and mousedev modules get loaded before startx
> even when the usb mouse has not been plugged in. And X is fooled to
> think the device is there although it is not there yet.
Interesting. Despite its name, this trick works with gpm too.
I realized when GPM is started without USB mouse and -M option, it
de-activate itself and useless. With this, GPM works with -M option and
I can plug USB mouse later while my touch pad works all the time :)
> Many thanks to all the replies.
Thanks.
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