Dual Mice Configuration with RH 8.0 on the Toshiba Satellite 1115-S103 Notebook and other notebooks, most likely draft version 0.1, by Rick Richardson This is pretty straigtforward. You need to edit two files. Do all of this work as "root". We will do this a step at a time, to make sure everything works as we go. First, shutdown the X server with this command: init 3 Now, login to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, etc.). Now, we want to make both mice work in console mode. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/gpm file and make it look like this: # Additional options for gpm (e.g. acceleration), device # # This is the complete command we want /etc/init.d/gpm to run... # gpm -R -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 # Here is the hack to do it... # OPTIONS="-R -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -M" DEVICE="/dev/input/mice" Now, shutdown gpm and restart it: gpm -k /etc/init.d/gpm restart Test both mice in console mode. They should both move the cursor. If they don't, do not proceed until you figure out why. Now, we want to make the mice work in graphical mode. Edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. In the section "ServerLayout", make sure there are two Mouse lines that look like this: Section "ServerLayout" ...snip... InputDevice "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" ...snip... EndSection Later in the file, make sure their are two mouse InputDevice sections that look exactly like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" # This is the scratchpad mouse.... Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" # This is the USB mouse.... Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Now, restart graphical mode: init 5 Both mice should be fully functional.