Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:49:03 -1000 From: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server, touchpad, mouse Message-ID: <20030410224903.741c58ad.knowtree@aloha.com> In-Reply-To: <200304050959.h359xbc10358@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200304050959.h359xbc10358@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 11:59:37 +0200
Christoph Kukulies <kuku@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.
>
> 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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