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How to use USB and ADB mice at the same time | |
It is possible to use both the trackpad and a USB mouse at
the same time on a Lombard laptop. The key is gpm; it can handle multiple mice, and the XF86Config can be set to read it's output. Here is my pointer entry from XF86Config: Protocol "MouseSystems" Device "/dev/gpmdata" And here is the command line for gpm, started before I launched X: gpm -m /dev/adbmouse -t bm -M -m /dev/usbmouse -t ps2 The -m's indicate the device to use, the -t indicates the mouse type (bm=busmouse, for the trackpad; ps2 for the Logitech Wingman USB mouse, why, I don't know), and the -M indicates multiple mice. hcaley@loomer.com | |
Two questions: Does this also work for two ADB mice (or, say, an ADB mouse and an ADB joystick, or an ADB mouse and a PS/2 mouse on a StarMax, which handles the PS/2 port by faking another ADB mouse)? How does imwheel (and the native XF86 Z-axis mapping) cope with this? andi@payn.net | |
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