Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread Fred
On 4/21/22 23:00, marc wrote: Hello gpm (and I suppose also consolation) is active only on the console, not in virtual terminals - so there's no conflict. Libre Gre, Florian I don't understand what you mean by virtual terminal. I don't use a DE, just openbox. I may have two xterms op

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread karl
Fred: ... > I need to work with a nonstandard serial three button mouse without > scroll wheel. It needs a baud rate specification and gpm has an > option for this. ... > I know that gpm works with this mouse. Since gpm works with the mouse I wouldn't say it is a "non-standard" one. What mouse pr

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread karl
Fred: ... > I don't understand what you mean by virtual terminal. There are not many "true" terminals left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal so basically all terminals today are virtual, in the sense that they behave as if they were an actual terminal, but they are not. There ar

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
On April 22, 2022 12:21:02 AM GMT+02:00, aitor wrote: > Hi Fred, > > On 21/4/22 23:39, Fred wrote: > > > I don't understand what you mean by virtual terminal. > > For sure the login prompts of tty2, tty3... brung up by holding down the > Ctrl+Alt keys, and pressing one of the function keys F2,

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread Fred
On 4/22/22 09:32, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: ... I need to work with a nonstandard serial three button mouse without scroll wheel. It needs a baud rate specification and gpm has an option for this. ... I know that gpm works with this mouse. Since gpm works with the mouse I wouldn't say

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread karl
Fred: ... > As I said in an earlier post there is an article on using a (different) > Sun mouse on Linux. The protocol used was msc. From looking at the > output with an oscilloscope that protocol does appear close if not correct. Type-4 and -5 mice seems to been made by mouse systems: https:

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread Fred
On 4/22/22 13:46, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: ... As I said in an earlier post there is an article on using a (different) Sun mouse on Linux. The protocol used was msc. From looking at the output with an oscilloscope that protocol does appear close if not correct. Type-4 and -5 mice seem

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread Fred
On 4/22/22 14:21, Fred wrote: On 4/22/22 13:46, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: ... As I said in an earlier post there is an article on using a (different) Sun mouse on Linux.  The protocol used was msc.  From looking at the output with an oscilloscope that protocol does appear close if not corr

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread karl
Fred: > On 4/22/22 14:21, Fred wrote: > > On 4/22/22 13:46, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > >> Fred: > >> ... > >>> As I said in an earlier post there is an article on using a (different) > >>> Sun mouse on Linux.  The protocol used was msc.  From looking at the > >>> output with an oscilloscope that p

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-22 Thread Fred
On 4/22/22 15:31, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: On 4/22/22 14:21, Fred wrote: On 4/22/22 13:46, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Fred: ... As I said in an earlier post there is an article on using a (different) Sun mouse on Linux.  The protocol used was msc.  From looking at the output with an oscillo