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raylpc
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:04 am Post subject: Trick to get left-handed mouse to work in 2.6 |
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I just upgraded to 2.6 this week. There was one annoying problem - I can't set my mouse left-handed anymore. There would be a clash between the left and right button (1 and 3). When I pressed the right button, it would think I'm pressing both at the same time. I am using a laptop with a USB mouse so in my XFree86, I have my USB as corepointer and my touchpad as alwaysCore. [edit] SendCoreEvent has the same effect [/edit]
The trick is to comment out the touchpad alwaysCore line in /etc/X11/XFree86. Now I can use the USB mouse as left-handed and the touchpad is still working. It's weird but this solved the problem. Hope it helps left-handed ppl using a USB mouse in a laptop with 2.6 kernel. 
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pilotino
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: Trick to get left-handed mouse to work in 2.6 |
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| raylpc wrote: |
The trick is to comment out the touchpad alwaysCore line in /etc/X11/XFree86. Now I can use the USB mouse as left-handed and the touchpad is still working. It's weird but this solved the problem. Hope it helps left-handed ppl using a USB mouse in a laptop with 2.6 kernel. |
Same problem here, but I don't have an AlwaysCore line at all. My input devices in the ServerLayout section are:
InputDevice "Logitech" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "TrackPoint" "SendCoreEvents"
This used to work fine under 2.4 but now I can't use the left-handed mouse.
What do yours look like?
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raylpc
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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It seems that the 2.6 kernel can only handle one mouse. I guess your Logitech is a USB mouse, right? You need comment out the SendCoreEvents line and keep the CorePointer line. Then you can use left-handed mouse again. Also the TrackPoint should work although we comment out it from the XFree86Config.
I guess the 2.6 kernel deals with touchpad or trackpoint internally, so if we added it in XFree86Config, there would be a conflict. Just my guess. |
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pilotino
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| raylpc wrote: | It seems that the 2.6 kernel can only handle one mouse. I guess your Logitech is a USB mouse, right? You need comment out the SendCoreEvents line and keep the CorePointer line. Then you can use left-handed mouse again. Also the TrackPoint should work although we comment out it from the XFree86Config.
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Yes, it's a Logitech wireless mouse.
Indeed it seems to work as you say: commenting out the TrackPoint leaves it useable and the left-hand problem goes away.
Thanks!
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