Re: [MLUG] USB mouse in Xfree86

[Jason McIntosh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Try two things:
A)  Change the settings from /dev/usbmouse to /dev/input/mice
B)  In X, restart GPM when you plugin the mouse.  I've found for some
strange reason this fixes things a lot.

Cheers!
Jason

On 1/3/03 4:39 PM, "yoda" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

> So, I have this USB mouse and keyboard I was playing with on my laptop. The
> keyboard I just plugged in (after properly compiling the kernel), and it
> recognized and loaded appropriate modules. Same with the mouse, except I had
> to
> add some lines in XF86Config to get X to look at /dev/usbmouse for input.
> 
> It works fine as long as X is started while the mouse is plugged in. The
> keyboard I can hot-plug to my heart's content. It didn't even need me to
> restart
> X. However, if I plug in the mouse while X is running, I get nothing. Is there
> a
> way to make (or jury-rig) X to allow me to plug in the mouse when I feel like
> it, without restarting X?
> 
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