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On Monday 23 October 2006 00:44, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > I don't see why you can't use /dev/input/mice - I have the same mouse |
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> > setup as you and it works for me. Unless you have problematic hardware |
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> > that is |
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> because the touchpad has to be configured differently to the usb mice, |
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> otherwise things like "emulate3buttons" don't always work (on the |
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> touchpad). Also, I have different acceleration settings on different |
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> mice, so I couldn't do that if they all used the same |
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> "/dev/input/mice"... |
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My touchpad does not seem to have a problem: |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Mouse0" |
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Driver "synaptics" |
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Option "Protocol" "SynPS/2" |
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Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" |
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Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" |
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Option "Name" "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" |
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Option "SHMConfig" "on" |
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Option "Vendor" "0002" |
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Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" |
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Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True" |
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Option "Buttons" "3" |
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EndSection |
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On the other hand I have not tried (yet) a USB mouse to see if/how it will be |
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picked up. No problem with PS/2 mice though. They are detected as soon as I |
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plug them in. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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