Greg wrote: >"apt-get install gpm" >Tell gpm that your mouse is on "/dev/psaux", of type "imps2", and to >repeat "raw". > I have since learned that the "officially" proper repeat type is "ms3".
>If you have a USB mouse, the >location will be "/dev/input/mice", but you also have to have USB >support working, which is another can of worms. > >Then reconfigure X to use the raw data repeated from gpm. Do this with >the command "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and specify >"/dev/gpmdata" as the mouse location. > If you're using a USB mouse, I believe both gpm and X can be configured to read from /dev/input/mice/. The /dev/input/mice device is smart enough to be able to feed mice events to multiple readers, whereas with the older /dev/psaux device, when gpm read a mouse event, that event would not be readable by X, and vice-versa, so that the mouse was unpredictable; letting gpm read all the events, and then repeating them to X solved this problem. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
