16 Oct
2009
16 Oct
'09
3:54 p.m.
Rich E wrote:
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=a3297bc90905291044q...
... 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.
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.