F9: usb mouse not working in X (solved)

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Wed Feb 6 17:09:29 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:54 +0200, Riku Seppälä wrote:
[snip]
> > What I forgot to mention is that I'm using a laptop with a synaptics
> > touchpad and a usb mouse. The configs on F8 & F9 are the same but after
> > comparing the log files I noticed that there is a difference in what X
> > decides about the touchpad reporting core events. 
> >
> > On F8 it says "(**) <default pointer>: always reports core events"
> > On F9 it says "(**) <default pointer>: doesn't report core events"
> >
> > On F9 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf changing this line:
> > InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
> > to
> > InputDevice    "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore"
> >
> > will make the usb mouse work again.
> >   
> Thanks, that did it. :)

Except I spoke too soon. With this change in xorg.conf my usb mouse
starts working but my touchpad no longer works.

-- 
Regards,
Patrick




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