My mouse has been working fine, but perhaps something more subtle could be wrong. Learning something new's always valuable.
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > 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" Currently I have: Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/ttyS0" > 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 I can't remember which device I left /dev/mouse symlinked to. Since I'm using gpm under console and /dev/ttyS0 under X, it hasn't mattered. But hey, I could change X to use /dev/mouse and symlink mouse to ttyS0, for consistency's sake. > 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\"" I haven't used anything like the repeat_type or append settings you have there. Gpm's device is /dev/ttyS0, and the type is ms. repeat_type is ''. Still, these settings did not work until I moved /dev/gpmdata. The mouse did not move, yet I'd set the pointer to use /dev/ttyS0. I remembered reading here or on the web that someone else couldn't get their mouse to work on X until they removed gpmdata, so I thought I'd try that. I'd read it was a named pipe that the gpm process populated with mouse input so X could get its data from it, so I figured it wouldn't hurt anything in the console if I took it away. Maybe X was treating /dev/gpmdata preferentially in spite of XF86Config. But I didn't want to screw myself if I found later that I needed /dev/gpmdata, so I moved it to /dev/gpmdata.gone. Once I did this, and started X, the mouse worked. This might not be ideal, but I'm a practical guy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.dhp.com/~mithras 716-586-0020 work, 716-256-2484 home, 716-233-3159 cell 174 Henrietta St. #2 / Rochester, NY 14620
