Since my initial post I have done some research on the subject of mouse support in the Linux kernel. I can see now why my suggestion was met with such strong opposition: it goes counter to the direction the kernel has been going since 2.5. With such a sweeping redesign of mouse support since 2.4, I think I need to do some experimentation to see if gpm still provides one of the key benefits that it once provided, namely the ability to resurrect a dead PS/2 mouse after unplugging and replugging. On older kernels, I could issue the following command which nearly always regained the use of the mouse in a virtual console:
/etc/init.d/gpm restart And if X was set up to use /dev/gpmdata, this would of course also resurrect the mouse in X too. Thomas Hood, in his web page for Debian GNU Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 600, specifically recommends this (http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm). However, this information appears to have been written when he was running a 2.4 kernel. On my system, gpm is currently configured to use the legacy mouse port /dev/psaux, but it appears from what I've read that this "device" no longer gives the direct access to the physical port that it once did. I wouldn't be surprised if gpm has thereby lost its ability to resurrect the mouse. I'll do some testing over the weekend and let you know what I find out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
