Re: Accepting external USB-mouse without restart

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Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 16:12 schrieb L. Jensen:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 04:35 am, NUKE THEM wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to plug in my external USB-mouse and use it without
> > restarting X. Is this possible?
>
> Yes, I have it working on my system.  Besides the two InputDevice sections
> you posted, you may need to change your ServerLayout section to something
> like what's below.  The other key ingredient is to make sure that all the
> modules needed for the usb mouse are loaded before X starts.  Otherwise,
> you may see an error in the log when the server tries to open the device. 
> The list of modules I use is below.
>
> Best
> L. Jensen
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier      "Layout[0]"
>         Screen          "Screen[0]"
>         InputDevice     "GenericKeyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
>         InputDevice     "SynapticsTouchPad" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice     "USBWheelMouse" "SendCoreEvents"
> EndSection
>
> MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT=" usb-uhci input evdev mousedev hid "

Didn't help with Linux 2.4 but I just upgraded to 2.6 and now it works. Weird, 
as much as I know the USB-System didn't change. 

Anyway, thanks a lot for your answer.

LLAP

Patrick 

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