mouse problem, well mice.

[Zephro]

Ok hiya folks!

I've just gotten my laptop dual booting into Linux finally. But I don't seem to be able to use 2 mice at once.

It will only let me use the touchpad, which is getting a bit dodgy and gets irritating. But it doesn't seem to detect my USB intelimouse explorer. Even when I tell it to use a USB mouse in the mouse tool thing. Odd thing is that it was the USB mouse that worked while installing.

Anyhow I'm vaguelly aware that there is a file in /dev/input corresponding to my mouse. But can I change these settings to accept 2 mice at once?

Thanks for any help in advance.

[Hayl]

there should be two mouse devices in /dev/input/mouse0 and /dev/input/mouse1

you need to set them both up in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

you will have to add another mouse input device using the second device in /dev/input as its device, and in the ServerLayout, you will need to add the second mouse, the restart X.

[chris_i386]

/dev/input/mice is what you're looking for.
...at least it was in my case!

[Icarus]

I'll post my mouse section for my laptop for you when I get home in a little bit. It's a little tricky but once you have it...

oh wait...check the XF86Config I have here for my laptop (http://paradoxinc.net/files/XF86Config)
it's a bit outdated (Red Hat 9), but I use the same mouse settings in a new updated Gentoo also...



Here's the important parts

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "DevInputMice"
# Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

EndSectionand at the very end... InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"

[Zephro]

Thankyou I'll try it in the morning :D too sleepy now.