[TriLUG] keyboard/mouse mapping question

[William Sutton]

Hummm....That looks like a possibility; will give it a shot when things 
stop compiling.

does it matter that both devices are actually plugged into ps/2 ports?

-- 
William Sutton


On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Ron Joffe wrote:

> On Friday 23 June 2006 06:17, William Sutton wrote:
> > Any suggestions for how to make this work properly permanently?  I know
> > it's doable because I've seen it work for extended periods in Red Hat and
> > Mandrake; however I don't have any applicable configuration information to
> > reference.
> 
> William,
> 
> Would both the mouse and keyboard be presenting themselves to the OS as 
> pointer devices? If so you might need two InputDevice Sections, one for the 
> real mouse, and one for the keyboard mouse. Only one would be the 
> CorePointer, but both should work just fine.
> 
> Here is an example, you will need to make some modifications for your 
> environment:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver       "mouse"
>   Identifier   "Mouse[0]"
>   Option       "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>   Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
>   Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
>   Option       "Protocol" "ps/2"
>   Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
>   Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver       "mouse"
>   Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
>   Option       "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
>   Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
>   Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
>   Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
>   Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
>   Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> ...
>   InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
>   InputDevice  "Mouse[0]" "CorePointer"
>   InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "SendCoreEvents"
> ...
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Ron
> 
>