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Re: second mouse



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:33:28PM -0200, Raul Montagne wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800/S253 with debian-woody running
> on it. Everything is running ok, even sound! ...but...
> I couldn't make the second mouse to work.
> I re-read the howtos and manual...and nothing.
> I've got the X 4 working ok
> I put the following lines for the mouse:
> 
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Mouse0"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "Buttons"               "5"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Mouse1"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/usbmouse"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "Buttons"               "5"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection


I don't think /dev/usbmouse is the right place, mine (sid, XF86-4) is
/dev/input/mice. If /dev/input doesn't exist, you need to cd to /dev and
do MAKEDEV input 
At least that's what I had to do, then restart X and voila!

> 
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier      "Default Layout"
>         Screen          "Default Screen"
>         InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
>         InputDevice     "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice     "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
>         Mode    0666
> EndSection
> 
> # end of XF86Config 
> 
> I think the problem is with usb device...nevertheless in the boot it
> appears to be working:
> 
> dmesg |grep usb
> 
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
> usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
> usb.c: registered new driver hid
> usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc80ff000, IRQ 11
> usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 11:06:46 Aug 19 2001
> usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> input0: Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse on usb1:2.0
> 
> any clue?
> thanx
> talueguito
> raul
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