hammack wrote:
Long time and still no cursor. I've tried two pointers, Kensington
"Expert Mouse" serial, and a PS/2 Generic. I have tried all the
combinations of Protocol and Device that I can and still don't have a
pointer in X. Below are files and excerpts of interest.
Any Help appreciated John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Do you have it working in the text-based console? If not, you might try
to get it to work there before tackling X, just to make sure the
hardware is functional. Also, if you use gpmdata, you need to have a
working console mouse, as the gpmdata grabs it's mouse information from gpm.
apt-get install gpm
gpmconfig
dir of home files for the below: What is "p" and "c" in the 2nd and
3rd lines? gpmdata appears to be an empty file and psaux is very small.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 20 22:49 mouse -> gpmdata
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 25 15:33 gpmdata
crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 Jul 5 2000 psaux
"c" means it's a character device, sending one character of data at a
time, like a mouse or keyboard. "b" is a block device, like a hard
drive, where a whole chunk of information (sector? cluster?) is sent at
a time. I'm not sure what "p" means, but it may be part of the /proc
system, which is not real devices but temporary "magic" ones, in this
case, being a temporary magic device that reads mouse movement from the
gpm program and passing it on to the X server.
XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseMan"
Device "/dev/mouse"
## Protocol "PS/2"
## Device "/dev/gpmdata"
BaudRate 1200
Emulate3Timeout 50
Resolution 100
# Buttons 3
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
gpmconf:
device=/dev/gpmdata
responsiveness=
repeat_type=raw
type=MouseMan
append=""
gpm.conf's "device=" line needs to point to the real mouse device;
gpmdata is only a middle-man between gpm and X. If it's a ps/2 style
connector, you probably want it to read "device=psaux". For a generic
PS/2 mouse, the "type=" line probably needs to read "type=ps/2" (or
"type=imps2" if you have a wheel).
hth
Kent
