Mix libinput evdev and synaptics drivers

We are discussing a problem with the Xorg evdev driver not so good for a mouse:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=15866

There is also mouse misbehaviour with Chrome and Chromium from version 140.x onward, as reported here:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/445495197

We have a Xorg config file, that dates right back to the Puppy days, that assigns the evdev driver to everything; /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev-puppy.conf

What I have now done is remove it, or rather, renamed to '10-evdev-puppy.confOLD', so it won't be used. Then, created a new file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev-puppy.conf (kept same name as Xorg Wizard reads and writes to it):

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
        #Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
        #Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc102" #xkbmodel0
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
        #Option      "XkbVariant" "" #xkbvariant0
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

..."touchpad" is not listed above, as that will be grabbed by /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf

As far as I can see, with this configuration, the mouse will be grabbed by libinput, the keyboard by evdev, and touchpad by synaptics.   

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