Bug 10559

Summary: Xorg will use /dev/input/mice, even though another pointer is configured in xorg.conf
Product: xorg Reporter: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component: Input/MouseAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: esigra
Version: 7.0.99.903 (7.1RC3)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 10101    
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2007-04-07 03:24:01 UTC
Xorg will use /dev/input/mice, even though another pointer is configured in xorg.conf
Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-04-07 03:24:27 UTC
Created attachment 9509 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-04-07 03:28:40 UTC
Created attachment 9510 [details]
Xorg log
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-04-08 03:33:08 UTC
you can work around this with Option "CorePointer" and Option "CoreKeyboard" in the Device section, rather than doing it in ServerLayout.
Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2007-04-08 03:34:25 UTC
workaround pushed to master.
Comment 5 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-04-09 04:39:32 UTC
Created attachment 9522 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 6 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-04-09 04:42:28 UTC
Created attachment 9523 [details]
xorg log
Comment 7 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-04-09 04:42:56 UTC
I may have misunderstood the workaround, but it doesn't seem to work
Comment 8 Peter Hutterer 2008-03-01 19:59:58 UTC
Option "CorePointer" "True"

in your InputDevice section.

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