On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:25, Tom Badran wrote: > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote: > > [...] > > > > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get > > > install gpm) > > > > > > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm > > > device rather than directly from the mouse > > > > Aah. You don't happen to know exactly how that configuration > > should look? On installing gpm, it does > > Sorry mate, i dont use it so i cant be exactly sure. > > The gpm configuration looked fine, then do a dpkg-reconfigure > xfree86-common (or is it xserver-xfree86) and on the question about > the mouse there you use /dev/gpmdata (or something similiar, its in > the list of available options)
Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work. The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2. /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
