I imagine you are talking about an external USB mouse. Here is what I had to do with mine to get the internal (PS/2 Logitech Intellipoint) and the external (generic USB) working simultaneously.Just replaced Suse 7.3 on an HP 5425 Notebook with Debian 3.0r1. The install went well except I guess I missed something. The Logitech USB mouse does not work. I suspect the USB ports are not turned on. Is there a straightforward way to init those ports now and get the mouse working? If not, what step did I miss in the installation? I saw the emails in the archive about the USB mouse in 2.4 but did not want to assume anything in 3.0. Thanks, jcp
Add these lines (or verify that they are present) in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" 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 "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSectionBasically, this tells the xserver to use the PS/2 internal as the primary pointing device, but to also pay attention to the external USB (if present). I have no problems with this setup, and it always works with or without the external mouse plugged in (no need for seperate configs).
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