USB mouse is jumpy

Chris Pemberton cjpembo at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 06:16:24 PDT 2007


Manuel Ravasio wrote:
> Yep!
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> I had the very same problem years ago, while trying to run both the (PS2) laptop touchpad and an external USB mouse.
> I used to run xorgconfig (xf86config) choosing PS2 as mouse protocol, then manually adding the second mouse as IMPS/2.
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> Since I've started to run xorgconfig choosing "auto" as mouse protocol, everything went fine.
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> HTH,
> Manuel
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I have no entries for any pointers in my xorg.conf; I let the xserver 
set up both the touchpad and the usb mouse.  Is it a "bug" if the 
xserver cannot set up both devices automagically?

Chris



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