different wsmouse(4) wscons devices interpreted as a single ws(4) X device; how to map 1-to-1?
Lucas de Sena <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:25:48 -0300
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Hi, I use a thinkpad with three pointer devices: - wsmouse0: The thinkpad's touchpad. - wsmouse1: The thinkpad's trackpoint. - wsmouse2: An external USB mouse. The relevant dmesg: OpenBSD 7.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #28: Thu Jul 9 21:12:16 MDT 2026 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 wsmouse1 at pms0 mux 0 pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 7.2, 0x1c0b1 0xb40000 0x0 0xd047b1 0xa0000 uhidev0 at uhub5 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0" rev 1.10/1.04 addr 4 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse2 at ums0 mux 0 wsconsctl(8) correctly recognises each one: # wsconsctl mouse0 mouse.type=synaptics mouse.rawmode=0 mouse.scale=1472,5470,1408,4498,0,60,85 mouse.reverse_scrolling=0 mouse.tp.tapping=0,0,0 mouse.tp.swapsides=0 mouse.tp.disable=0 mouse.tp.edges=0.0,5.0,0.0,5.0 mouse.scaling=0.182 # wsconsctl mouse1 mouse1.type=ps2 mouse1.reverse_scrolling=0 mouse1.scaling=1.000 # wsconsctl mouse2 mouse2.type=usb mouse2.rawmode=1 mouse2.scale=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 mouse2.reverse_scrolling=0 mouse2.scaling=1.000 The X server, however does not recognize all three, it only recognises two: a generic /dev/wsmouse that affects both the trackpoint and the USB mouse; and /dev/wsmouse0 for the synaptics touchpad only: $ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ /dev/wsmouse0 id=7 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ /dev/wsmouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ /dev/wskbd id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] I want to configure the X device for trackpoint individually so it does not affect the USB mouse. But that is not possible. I have already tried to fiddle with xorg.conf(5). I tried to specify InputClass and InputDevice sections for each device, with different combinations of options, but nothing works: it's always a single device for X. How can i make X recognize each device separatedly? -- Lucas de Sena