On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:34:38AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I have a thinkpad laptop with a trackpoint, touchpad and occasionally an > external usb mouse. The laptop goes to sleep between uses so X isn't restarted > much. I want to be able to connect the mouse on occasions, when it was not > connected when starting X, while still being able to give each device it's own > configuration. > > Theoretically I would define the touchpad to use /dev/input/mouse0, the > trackppoint /dev/input/mouse1 and the usb mouse /dev/input/mouse2 (as they do), > but since mouse2 doesn't exist when X starts I can't connect it unless it was > connected initially. > > I found a workaround of defining the trackpoint to use /dev/input/mice and the > touchpad /dev/input/mouse0 so that it can use the synaptic driver, but that is > not ideal as the trackpoint uses PS/2 or microsoftPS2 and the external mouse > ImPs/2 (I hope I remember all of these correctly) and I also want different > options for the mouse and touchpad. > > Is that possible? Windows does it, so I Hope that the answer is yes ... > Thanks the things that occurs to me is maybe you can use gpm in repeater mode to generate mouse events for X. Then use some udev hooks to respawn gpm when you plug in the external mouse. Then do all the config within gpm. just a thought. I swear just yesterday I saw something about changing the mouse on the fly, but I'll be damned if I can find it now.... :( A
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