From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew B. Cramer" Subject: Re: Mouse support Q Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:53:38 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E550812.25855.20FA5B5@localhost> References: <3E54DDC5.19544.16A63B6@localhost> Reply-To: andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <20030220221525.GA10945@rns-nis.co.yu> Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Milan P. Stanic" Cc: linux-admin Hi, Yes, I agree, if I use an external PS/2 mouse at the same time as the internal pointer on my TP-600e, they both work. The problem is getting a Serial mouse to work at the same time, instead of the external PS/2. On 20 Feb 2003 at 23:15, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:53:09PM -0600, Andrew B. Cramer wrote: > > The mouse I have is a M/S Ballpoint. It does support both serial and > > PS/2 modes. The problem is I cannot just put an adapter cable on the > > other end past the Belken KVM. It does not work. The KVM buffers all > > lines and maintains serial states. It does not put the connection > > directly through. Since that doesn't work, I'd like to be able to > > change the PS/2 driver to Serial on the fly. I would do this without > > having X11 running, just the base system. I tried changing the mouse > > symbolic link, but since the serial has not been initialized to the > > mouse, that does not seem to work either. (hrumpf). > > I don't know anything about "Belken KVM" (and what is that) but I have > on my old notebook (Compaq armada) serial and PS/2 (PS/2 is built-in > trackball) both configured and they both works in the same time. So, > it is possible to use two mouse simultaneously with xfree 4.x.x. > > Milan > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >