HOWTO Second Mouse

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[edit] Introduction

This Howto is for users who are using a second mouse (e.g. laptop users). In my example the primary device is a touchpad connected internally as a ps2 interface and an usb mouse as second device.

Note: This may not be required anymore, I just plugged in a USB mouse without applying these edits and it worked immediately.

[edit] Xfree Setup

File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "PS2Mouse"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option      "Protocol"              "PS/2"
   Option      "Device"                "/dev/mouse"
   Option      "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
   Option      "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "USBMouse"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option      "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option      "Device"                "/dev/usbmouse"
   Option      "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
   Option      "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Set touchpad as primary device: 

Section "ServerLayout"
   InputDevice "PS2Mouse"      "CorePointer"
   InputDevice "USBMouse"      "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

[edit] Editing /etc/conf.d/usb

X only recognize the usb mouse when attached to the computer by changing following line.

File: /etc/conf.d/usb 
X11_USBMICE_HACK=true
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