<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 9, 2007 4:00 PM, Sascha Hlusiak <<a href="mailto:saschahlusiak@arcor.de">saschahlusiak@arcor.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> > When I start using the additional mice, the cursor on the desktop reacts, > which > is unexpected. Ensuring that /org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event does not fire, > does not solve the problem. </div>Is anything added to the Xorg.0.log file as soon when you plug in the additional mice? Maybe they are added through hal, meaning Ubuntu shipped and installed the fdi file for input hotplugging.</blockquote> <div> No, there is nothing in the log file after the initial startup. Log file ends: (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/psaux" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (==) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9 (**) Configured Mouse: Sensitivity: 1 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Also, as I said, if I comment out /etc/udev/rules.d/95-hal.rules # Have udev pass data over a socket to hal # RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" (and I can see in /var/log/daemon.log that org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event is not triggered); it makes no difference. syslog confirms there is no hal event after initial startup. lsof (filtered for Xorg and (dev|socket|proc|) says: Xorg 5205 root mem CHR 1,1 2805 /dev/mem Xorg 5205 root 3u unix 0xffff810071d7d8c0 30756 socket Xorg 5205 root 4u CHR 4,7 2575 /dev/tty7 Xorg 5205 root 5u REG 0,3 256 4026531988 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 Xorg 5205 root 6w REG 0,3 0 4026531914 /proc/mtrr Xorg 5205 root 7u CHR 10,1 4324 /dev/psaux Still stumped..... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> > I am truly stuck on this one. It used to work fine in the bad old days when > one had to modify > xorg.conf explicitly to add a second mouse. </div>Geetings, Sascha </blockquote></div>