F9: usb mouse not working in X (solved)

Riku Seppälä riku.seppala at kymp.net
Wed Feb 6 17:39:56 UTC 2008


Patrick wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Yeah. Well I only use my usb mouse so I can live without touchpad for now.




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