Rich E wrote:I have used this exact trick to make a huge number of x/y controllers out of spare mice, ie. having one mouse controling the X pointer and the rest just send pd events.
> In the most recent version of Ubuntu, I had to turn off HAL and go back to
> just using xorg.conf. You can follow a very confused thread (on my part)
> about this, which eventually leads to success:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a3297bc90905291044q749cdd85i572f6b4ec771d24f%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=linuxwacom-discuss
>
> ... but, essentially you need to remove the hal configure scripts, then make
> sure the Mouse section in your xorg.conf file does not point to
> '/dev/input/mice', but to whatever your mouse actually is. Then your tablet
> will just spit out events without controlling the pointer.