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My laptop has a Synaptics touchpad and also has a plug for an external mouse. I boot into run level 3. The touchpad works when I boot. Once I've booted and started X, I can plug in the mouse and both it and the touchpad can control the pointer. However, if I boot with the mouse plugged in, X crashes when I try to start it. How can I boot with the mouse plugged in and have the mouse and touchpad both work?<BR>
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I've attached the relevant part of my xorg.conf file below.<BR>
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Stan Klein<BR>
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Section "InputDevice"<BR>
Identifier "Mouse0"<BR>
Driver "mouse"<BR>
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"<BR>
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<BR>
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<BR>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"<BR>
EndSection<BR>
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Section "InputDevice"<BR>
Identifier "Synaptics"<BR>
Driver "synaptics"<BR>
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<BR>
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"<BR>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"<BR>
Option "CorePointer"<BR>
EndSection<BR>
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Section "InputDevice"<BR>
Identifier "Mouse1"<BR>
Driver "mouse"<BR>
Option "Protocol" "PS2"<BR>
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"<BR>
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"<BR>
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"<BR>
Option "AlwaysCore" "true"<BR>
EndSection<BR>
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