TouchPoint on IBM Thinkpad works in console but not X

Jim White spamchannel at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 01:36:38 PST 2005


On 12/15/05, Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/15/05, TuxGirl <tuxgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Wild guess here, but I'm thinking it might not be able to use it since
> > > it's being used in the console.
> >
> > Yes, this is the problem
> >
> > > I don't actually use the mouse in
> > > the console, though, so if there's a way to stop using it there, and
> > > just use it in X, I'd be happy to do that.  I'm not sure how I would
> > > go about doing that, though.
> >
> > add the line
> >
> > moused_enable="NO"
> >
> > in your /etc/rc.conf
>
>

Or you could set the Protocol line in your xorg.conf to sysmouse instead of
ps/2 to keep console mouse access.


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