On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:38:20AM -0500, Mithras wrote: ... > Thanks to everyone that replied! The key for me was hearing about > "gpm". I can't recall all the combinations I tried last night, but I > was successful setting up the mouse to work with both X and the > console. After configuring gpm for the console, I changed the Pointer > declaration in XF86Config to use ttyS0, but I had to rename > /dev/gpmdata for X to listen to the serial port.
This doesn't sound right! (maybe it's just me failing to understand you) You should not touch /dev/gpmdata, let alone rename it. Let me recap: In XF86Config you should use: Protocol "whatever suits your mouse" Device "/dev/mouse" Now you have two options: 1) use gpm 2) do'n use gpm If yoy don't plan to use gpm make sure that: $ ls -l /dev/mouse lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 16 21:07 /dev/mouse -> ttyS0 If you do use gpm make sure that: $ ls -l /dev/mouse lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 16 21:07 /dev/mouse -> gpmdata and setup gpm to use: device=/dev/ttyS0 type=whatever-suits-your-mouse repeat_type=raw append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" Be aware that gpm's `type' should correspond to XF86Config's `Protocol'. -- groetjes, carel
