Ever Wonder How to Use A Mouse & Touchpad in X?

I remember, awhile back, I got a USB mouse and touchpad working in X on my first laptop (using Suse). Many people still ask this question in ##slackware.

All you do is ensure you have the following within your xorg.conf file:


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Logitech"
EndSection

You'll notice that the bold print is the print that you have to add to your pre-existing configuration.

The whole file is here.

Give it a whirl...and good luck!