Re: x troubles on hp omnibook 4100

[Tony Godshall <togo@of.net>]

According to Rob,
> On Sunday 24 August 2003 06:54 pm, Matt Price wrote:
> > subsidiary question: do you use an external mouse?  my touchpad is
> > either a little sticky, or not configured quite right (I assume the
> > latter, since you reported no problems) -- the left-click button
> > doesn't seem to want to 'MouseUp' most of the time.  For fun I tried
> > connecting a random USB mouse to the USB port, but even though the
> > config includes a second "generic mouse" in the server setup
> > (identical to the mouse setup on my desktop, which is where I pulled
> > the mouse in questio from), I couldn't get it to work.  Did you have
> > to do anything fancy with the mice, like set up devices or something?
> >
> > thanks again,
> > m
> 
> I usually use a ps/2 mouse, but the touch pad and the stick mouse both 
> work fine(as do all the buttons) with the config that was created by 
> debconfig. I haven't tried to set USB up in the kernel yet, so I don't 
> know if I can help there.

I use an external mouse: it's just a matter of setting up a
second InputDevice entry.  Here's my XF86Config-4 entry:

  Section "InputDevice"
          Identifier      "USB_Mice"
          Driver          "mouse"
          Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
          Option          "Device"
  "/dev/input/mice"
          Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
          Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
          Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
  EndSection
 
 ...
 
  Section "ServerLayout"
          Identifier      "Default Layout"
          Screen          "Default Screen"
          InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
          InputDevice     "Builtin_Touchpad"
          InputDevice     "USB_Mice"
  EndSection
 
You do have to hand-tweak it since debconf only sets up one
mouse for you.  You'll probably want to move these two
sections past ### END DEBCONF SECTION area to protect it from future X
upgrades.