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Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" # Secondary pointer
# Device will be discovered automatically
EndSection
The X server will fail if no pointer device can be opened. You can override this
behavior with an AllowMouseOpenFail option entry in the ServerFlags (or
ServerLayout) section:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "Yes"
EndSection
You can also specify the option -allowMouseOpenFail on the X server command line.
It??™s also possible to merge the input from two or more mice using
GPM or MOUSED (Section 4.10).
4.9 Parallel Keyboards
The X server normally gets keyboard input from the VT on which it is running. On
some systems, including Linux and some versions of Solaris, the input from multiple
keyboard devices is merged by the kernel (with help from the hotplug subsystem).
Therefore, no configuration is required to set up additional parallel keyboards.
Instead of relying on this default behavior, you can specify a specific device in the
keyboard InputDevice section. This is potentially useful if you want input from only
one of several attached keyboards, if you wish to use different layouts for different
keyboards, or if you??™re using a system that does not merge keyboard input.
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