X server, touchpad, mouse

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:49:03PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 11:59:37 +0200
> Christoph Kukulies <kuku at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> 
> > When I run X (FreeBSD 5.0R, XFree86 4.?.?) and use the touchpad,
> > everything's fine. Do I plug in the mouse later, the cursor freezes
> > and the current session becomes unusable.

Unfortunately I couldn't get it working with either of the suggestions
that came up on this subject (to enable moused and add an entry
with /dev/sysmouse in XF86Config. In the latter case I 'm getting
an "init spawning too rapidly" indicating that X dies during startup.

 from dmesg:
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model 4D Mouse, device ID 6


> > 
> > Is there a way to handle this smoothly? Needless to say that Windows
> > 2000 or ME handles this no problem. This ain't X, OTOH :-)
> 
> I have XFree86-4 running on Mandrake Linux on a Sony VAIO PCG-SR7K. This
> laptop has a touchpad and a USB mouse. With a "standard" configuration I
> could only use the USB mouse when it was plugged in during boot-up.
> Someone suggested some modifications to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and with
> those I can hot-plug the USB mouse at any time. Below are two relevant
> sections from that file. Mouse1 is the touchpad, Mouse2 is the USB mouse.
> I don't know if "/dev/input/mice" is a valid device on FreeBSD.
> 
> # **********************************************************************
> # Pointer section
> # **********************************************************************
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Mouse1"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
>     Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
>     Option "Emulate3Buttons"
>     Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
> 
> # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
> 
> #    Option "ChordMiddle"
> 
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse2"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> 	# Option	    "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> ... later, at the end of the file:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "layout1"
>  	Screen         "screen1" 0 0
> 	Option	       "Xinerama" "on"
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies at rwth-aachen.de