From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gbn4Y-0007pV-R0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:49:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9MNlTtB001892; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:47:29 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cirrus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9MNiUMr028541 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:44:31 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF554170140 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:44:28 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg can't work with hotplugged mice? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200610181441.25001.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> References: <1161173722.4837.26.camel@orpheus> <200610181441.25001.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:14:26 +0930 Message-Id: <1161560666.11761.9.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 86f1d74f-bdc8-4e5f-9f06-2833ad9acde4 X-Archives-Hash: 5e6edfe740baa79dfda2d8cbefc77d01 On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > from time to time I remove mice and plug them in, as I move my laptop > > around locations. Sometimes I also start my laptop without a mouse > > plugged in, and then plug one in after boot. > > [snip] > > > I can't use the generic /dev/input/mice, (the one-for-all device) > > because I have a synaptic driver for the touchpad > > (/dev/input/mouse1), and "auto" for any other mouse plugged in > > (/dev/input/mouse2). > > I don't see why you can't use /dev/input/mice - I have the same mouse > setup as you and it works for me. Unless you have problematic hardware > that is because the touchpad has to be configured differently to the usb mice, otherwise things like "emulate3buttons" don't always work (on the touchpad). Also, I have different acceleration settings on different mice, so I couldn't do that if they all used the same "/dev/input/mice"... > [snip] > > > does _anyone_ reading use X and _not_ the /dev/input/mice device? I > > would be interested to hear from you!!! > > Well, fwiw, I'll give you the config I have and that works for me (with > irrelevant bits snipped out). Maybe it'll work for you too... [snip] > It's been a long long time since I set this up but I believe the > critical settings at the time were "CorePointer" and "AlwaysCore" in > the ServerLayout Thanks. I do indeed have CorePointer, and AlwaysCore for my various mice - and it works, so I don't think changing the xorg.conf file will fix it. It's just when I unplug a working usb mouse, it won't work when I plug it back in, UNLESS I switch to a console first. any other ideas? -- Iain Buchanan 3rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list