[luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop

[Daniel J Nishimura]

Thanks...it worked!!

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, MonMotha wrote:

> I'd say how, but mozilla is acting up...
> GRR...I'll type it by hand:
>
>
> # Onboard/PS2
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier "Mouse1"
> 	Driver "mouse"
> 	Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> 	Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> EndSection
> # External/USB
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier "Mouse2"
> 	Driver "mouse"
> 	Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> 	Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> EndSection
>
> Section ServerLayout
> 	Identifier "TwoMouse"
> 	Screen "<whatever you have>"
> 	InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice "Mouse2" "AnotherMouse"
> 	InputDevice "<your keyboard>" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> That will get X to see the two mice.  Internal as "CorePointer" and the
> external as "AnotherMouse".  Getting "AnotherMouse" to do somethign is
> left as an exercise to the reader (google for it I guess, I"ve never
> dont this).
>
> BTW, I guess I'll be installing evolution or something...
>
> --MonMotha
>
> Eric Hattemer wrote:
> > well, asside from rebooting, you could probably open a terminal, go into
> > init 3 (as root), run kudzu, then run init 5 again.  This should only take a
> > minute, and hopefully should configure the mouse for use in X.  You might be
> > able to set up two pointers in X, but I have no idea of how.
> >
> > -Eric Hattemer
>
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