[CentOS] Conflict between mouse and tablet

[Dave Gutteridge]

>Any reason not to get rid of the mouse if you want to use the Wacom?
>  
>
I would happily ditch the mouse, and in the course of testing what you 
suggest in this email, I have. No change, though.
As I understand it, it's not the mouse itself, but the configuration I 
have. But I could be wrong about that.

>What does
># ls -alF /dev/input
>show?
>  
>
It shows this:
[root at localhost dave]# ls -alF /dev/input
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    180 Aug  3  2005 ./
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root   5760 Aug  3 01:13 ../
crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 64 Aug  3  2005 event0
crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 65 Aug  3  2005 event1
crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 66 Aug  3  2005 event2
crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 63 Aug  3  2005 mice
crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 32 Aug  3  2005 mouse0
crw-r--r--  1 root root 13, 33 Aug  3  2005 mouse1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      6 Aug  3  2005 wacom -> event2


>I'd try rebooting to runlevel 3 with the mouse disconnected and
>reconfiguring X as follows:
>
I did what you suggest, and the net result was that it wiped out what I 
had in the xorg.conf and writes a new one. This makes the wacom go to 
it's default settings, and I also can't access it anymore by using the 
configuration GUI utility that comes with the drivers. When I start the 
utility, it says tablet not found.
I put the xorg.conf file back to how I had it, and I can start the 
utility and it finds the tablet, but then I'm basically back to where I 
was with the first posting, where the tablet will respond to some speed 
and sensitivity settings, but the buttons can't be configured, and it's 
stuck in "absolute" mode, and not "relative" mode.
In short, I can't configure it because it's conflicting with the mouse 
still.

It's still opaque to me as to where this conflict is happening. There is 
no mouse connected to the computer anymore, and yet still if I try to 
have an xorg.conf file without reference to a mouse, X windows crashes. 
What's up with that?

Dave