On 10, aug, 2000 at 09:42:25 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:41PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> > I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few
> > problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in
> > X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within XF86Setup.
> > It used to work before, and settings from before don't work.
> >
> > Here's the really strange part (which may be related): When I'm in the
> > console, the mouse DOES work! I've never had that before, but I can move it
> > around and copy and paste, just like I should when I'm in X.
>
> There are two different mouse servers, one in X and one in gpm
> (console). Anyway, you've discovered the "gpm interferes with my mouse in
> X problem". You'll probably want to have gpm "repeat" to /dev/gpmdata
> which you can configure X to use. For instance, my /etc/gpm.conf reads:
>
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=10
> type=ps2
> append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/300-326330-366370-377\" -r 20"
>
To be more verbose on the subject:
In XF86Setup tell X to read mouse data from /dev/gpmdata instead
of /dev/<PS2 or COM[1,2]>.
I had the same problem once last winter when I started using Debian
(Potato), and back then I wouldn't have known how to follow the above,
absolutely correct, advice from Eric [1].
BTW, I don't have the
``appends="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/300-326330-366370-377\" -r 20"'' line in
my /etc/gpm.conf, I think it disappeared back when I reinstalled a month
ago or so ... so it might be insignificant.
Hope this clarifies things ...
HAND
Morten
[1]: Oh well, I'm probably just stupid! ;-)
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