On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:49:25PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: | On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:58, Shot wrote:
| > Richard Lyons: | > > You have mouse active in console? I haven't seen that | > > since I switched from RedHat. How do you achieve that? | > | > Through apt-get install gpm. There were some problems with it not | > behaving nicely with subsequently started X, but there were also | > some solutions to this, I believe. | | Thanks. Turns out I have gpm installed. It just never worked on any of the | machines (one woody 2 sid). Wonder why... something for a lazy day -- not | urgent enough for now. Or spend 10 minutes now and be done with it. Really. Setting up gpm is very simple, and getting gpm and X to play together is equally as simple. The steps go like this (copied from earlier posts of mine to this list) : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg06012.html ---- I can't emphasize it enough: 1) stop X, get gpm working 1.a) pick the right device (usually /dev/psaux) 1.b) pick the right protocol (usually ps2 or imps2) 1.c) repeat_type=raw 1.d) start gpm, move mouse 1.e) if this doesn't work, go back to 1.a! 2) get X working 2.a) pick the right device (/dev/gpmdata!!) 2.b) pick the right protocol (the same one gpm is using; duh :-)) 2.c) start X, move mouse 2.d) if this doesn't work, which step did you not follow correctly? :-) Note the critical elements -- device and protocol. If you don't use the right device and the right protocol, it isn't going to work, right. Period. Get those two right and it will work. ---- It works every time. -D PS. Additional information : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg05826.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200201/msg01960.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg03414.html -- "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language." - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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