Configuring Alternative Pointer Devices

The following sections describe how to configure your system to use a standard physical mouse and another pointer device such as a single switch device or head-tracker device, and how to configure On-Screen Keyboard to use the second pointer device.

To Configure Alternative Pointer Devices on Oracle Solaris Systems

1. Before you connect the alternative pointer device to your system, list the existing devices.

   # ls -l /dev/usb/hid*

2. Connect the alternative pointer device to your system.
3. List the new device.

   # ls -l /dev/usb/hid*

4. In the file /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig, add the following lines.

   # Sun Mouse module
       class="XINPUT" name="IMOUSE2"
       dev="/dev/usb/hid2" strmod="usbms"
       ddxHandler="ddxSUNWmouse.so.1"
       ddxInitFunc="ddxSUNWmouseProc";

   where:

   • The name option starts with the string IMOUSE but is extended to form a unique string, such as IMOUSE2 or IMOUSE3, depending on the number of existing devices.

   • The dev option specifies the device name that you identified in Step 3.

5. Remove the following lines from the OWconfig file.

   # Null Mouse module class="XINPUT" name="NMOUSE" 
       ddxHandler="ddxSUNWmouse.so.1" ddxInitFunc="ddxnullmouseProc";

6. Save the /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig file.
7. Restart the X Server.

To Configure Two USB Mouse Devices on Oracle Solaris x86 Systems

1. Before you connect the second mouse to your system, list the existing devices:

   # ls -l /dev/usb/hid*

2. Connect the second mouse to your system.
3. List the new device.

   # ls -l /dev/usb/hid*

4. In the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, edit the ServerLayout section as follows:

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

5. Edit the InputDevice section as follows:

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

6. Insert a second InputDevice section as follows:

   Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier  "Mouse1"
            Driver      "mouse"
            Option      "Protocol" "VUID"
            Option      "StreamsModule" "usbms"
            Option      "Device" "/dev/usb/hidx"
   EndSection

   where:

   /dev/usb/hidx is the device name that you identified in Step 3.

7. Save the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
8. Restart the X Server.