From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKoe7-0001zU-1g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:59:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1024521C11E; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D31821C113 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so10122959iah.40 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:57:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=ICysLrtKMN3JqkUJNfi7o6LwdKI270yhsvS5znNTukM=; b=gugJ8lOPHD/3EfYe1qzoMtowlZ7uR42hLyQwgTuBU/6qghO+NwOQu+ULKtSYNo1ear 20ouJ4MRqIxPq4lXngoDWhRtlDF/eqjJu2xVzywqtBDXvz0qwvTpirAl1nWjrP+UEUAt NzCOQbEvuXQrB4jyALsB8M30DgvXUd074EFrw= Received: by 10.42.176.74 with SMTP id bd10mr291790icb.55.1320055051041; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.179.7 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:57:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111031091319.GA19535@math.princeton.edu> References: <20111031091319.GA19535@math.princeton.edu> From: James Broadhead Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:57:10 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4633ef0d-d758-4b8a-81dd-3602c709d002 X-Archives-Hash: 9603e22ed5a4ab206870022198d904ec On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong wrote: > When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, > mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all > other mouse devices. > > On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only > take one MOUSEDEV entry at a time (as far as I know), so currently I > have it set on /dev/input/mice. Ideally, however, I only want to use > mouse0 and mouse2 on the console (mouse1 is actually a touchscreen and > its output is "junk" from the point of view of the ps2 driver, and > actually causes problems). > > How does one create, using udev, an input device that aggregates just > the data from mouse0 and mouse2? Do you mean for X, or a /dev/ node for gpm ? Like /dev/input/most_mice ? For the first, this is configurable in xorg.conf. No clue about the second.