[ltp] Enabling Intellimouse with Linux

Rob Mayoff linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
6 Apr 2002 13:05:00 -0600


I would guess that the problem is that the built-in trackpoint only
talks PS/2 protocol, but the external mouse talks IMPS/2 when told to.
So the input from /dev/psaux ends up being a mixture of the two, and the
X mouse driver can't handle that.

If you use a USB mouse, it will talk on /dev/input/mice, leaving only
the trackpoint on /dev/psaux, so you won't have this problem.

+---------- On Apr 6, Rob Bell said:
> It must have just came through weird in the e-mail.  Actually, the
> 'Protocol "PS/2"' is commented out.


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