Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-15 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:43PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > As for gpm - I don't use it myself, but I don't think 2.6 has changed > the situation that you can't meaningfully have two things trying to > read the same mouse. The standard advice is to get gpm working first - > configuring it accordin

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-15 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:30:49PM -0500, James Miller wrote: > Ok. I see I should have mentioned that I rebooted. It still didn't work. > Nor did manually modprobing it work (I didn't think it would if rebboting > after editing /etc/modules failed, but I thought I should try it anyway). > I also

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:46:26AM -0500, James Miller wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > > > > > In /etc/modules add the line: > > > > > > psmouse > > > > > > Then restart X. > > > > Unfortunately this did not change anything. Even after

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:46:26AM -0500, James Miller wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > > > In /etc/modules add the line: > > > > psmouse > > > > Then restart X. > > Unfortunately this did not change anything. Even after putting the entry > psmouse in the file /etc/modules,

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
tried upgrading to the 2.6.x kernel on my Debian Sid system a couple > > of times now, but each time I boot into the gui with the new kernel, I > > lose all mouse functionality. In other words, no matter what I do to the > > physical mouse, the cursor on the screen will not move:

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
In /etc/modules add the line: psmouse Then restart X. Ralph On Tuesday 13 April 2004 08:36 am, James Miller wrote: > I've tried upgrading to the 2.6.x kernel on my Debian Sid system a couple > of times now, but each time I boot into the gui with the new kernel, I > lose all mouse

lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-13 Thread James Miller
I've tried upgrading to the 2.6.x kernel on my Debian Sid system a couple of times now, but each time I boot into the gui with the new kernel, I lose all mouse functionality. In other words, no matter what I do to the physical mouse, the cursor on the screen will not move: it just stays

Re: Mouse functionality

2002-01-16 Thread Theo Bierman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:03:17PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:23:29PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I have a ps/2 microsoft intellimouse. I am trying to get the the middle > > button to complete my paste after I highlight something. At the moment bot

Re: Mouse functionality

2002-01-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/15/02 22:47:35 -0500, dman wrote: > I'll disagree :-). People seem to have lots of trouble getting gpm > and X to play nicely together, but once you know the basics it is easy : > > 1) pick the right protocol in gpm > 2) set gpm repeat_type to 'raw' > 3) use the _same_ protocol in X > >

Re: Mouse functionality

2002-01-15 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:09:55PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | could you be a little more specific? Are you having the problems in the | console, or X? If it is the console, you will /need/ to be running gpm to | use the mouse at all... if it's X, then you don't need gpm (in fact

Re: Mouse functionality

2002-01-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:23:29PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote: > Hi All > > I have a ps/2 microsoft intellimouse. I am trying to get the the middle > button to complete my paste after I highlight something. At the moment both > the left and right button do what I need however I prefer the middle

Re: Mouse functionality

2002-01-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, could you be a little more specific? Are you having the problems in the console, or X? If it is the console, you will /need/ to be running gpm to use the mouse at all... if it's X, then you don't need gpm (in fact i find it easier to use if you don't have gpm running w/ X, although I'm s

Mouse functionality

2002-01-15 Thread Theo Bierman
Hi All I have a ps/2 microsoft intellimouse. I am trying to get the the middle button to complete my paste after I highlight something. At the moment both the left and right button do what I need however I prefer the middle button to work. gpm is not running however does this have anything to d