Today I moved my mouse from it's (IBM M13) connection in the keyboard to the mouse connector in the pc in order to get the wheel to work. That worked but now the mouse in gpm (console) doesn't work. My original XF86Config mouse section was.. Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Name" "AutoDetected" Option "Protocol" "ps/2" Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection .. and I changed it to .. Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Name" "AutoDetected" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection ..is there a way to configure gpm independant of XF86Config? What should I do to make it work? Is gpm even referring to XF86Config? Thank you. -- (o< //\ Powered by SuSE Linux V_/_ Virusproof. Crashproof. 7:59pm up 29 days, 2:54, 23 users, load average: 1.01, 1.07, 1.08 processes 2573574
The 03.07.01 at 20:04, Robt. Miller wrote:
..is there a way to configure gpm independant of XF86Config? What should I do to make it work? Is gpm even referring to XF86Config? Thank you.
gpm doesn't even read XF86Config. It is (or was) configured via Yast, but you may do it directly in "/etc/sysconfig/mouse" But, sometimes gpm and X conflicts. Sometimes you have to disable gpm, start it before, or after, or before on repeat mode. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.07.01 at 20:04, Robt. Miller wrote:
..is there a way to configure gpm independant of XF86Config? What should I do to make it work? Is gpm even referring to XF86Config? Thank you.
gpm doesn't even read XF86Config. It is (or was) configured via Yast, but you may do it directly in "/etc/sysconfig/mouse"
But, sometimes gpm and X conflicts. Sometimes you have to disable gpm, start it before, or after, or before on repeat mode.
My experience was that I could have the wheel mouse, or I could have gpm, but not both :-)) I like the wheel mouse, so have (so far) put up with the frustration of not having gpm. I really want BOTH.
The 03.07.06 at 16:32, Stanley Long wrote:
My experience was that I could have the wheel mouse, or I could have gpm, but not both :-))
I like the wheel mouse, so have (so far) put up with the frustration of not having gpm. I really want BOTH.
I have both (a logitech ps/2 trackmarble+), but... I have to disable gpm from starting in runlevel 5 - suse already disables it. So, after X is started, I switch to a console as root and start it (rcgpm start). Usually it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and the mouse bangs to a corner, and if I move it (in X specially) it acts as if menu entries are selected and anything could happen. Another way that worked for me (suse 7.1 and 7.3, in 8.1 I didn't need it), is to set the mouse in gpm as a repeater, and force X to read the mouse from gpm. For this you have to reboot to runlevel 3. In my case, if you allow X to take the mouse, gpm doesn't start properly for that setup. After gpm is configured and works, run "sax2 --gpm --reinit" (save your config first). It might work for you, or it might not. If it does, you have to alter rcgpm so that it does start on runlevel 5, or X will not have a mouse. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.07.06 at 16:32, Stanley Long wrote:
My experience was that I could have the wheel mouse, or I could have gpm, but not both :-))
I like the wheel mouse, so have (so far) put up with the frustration of not having gpm. I really want BOTH.
I have both (a logitech ps/2 trackmarble+), but... I have to disable gpm from starting in runlevel 5 - suse already disables it. So, after X is started, I switch to a console as root and start it (rcgpm start). Usually it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and the mouse bangs to a corner, and if I move it (in X specially) it acts as if menu entries are selected and anything could happen.
Another way that worked for me (suse 7.1 and 7.3, in 8.1 I didn't need it), is to set the mouse in gpm as a repeater, and force X to read the mouse from gpm. For this you have to reboot to runlevel 3. In my case, if you allow X to take the mouse, gpm doesn't start properly for that setup. After gpm is configured and works, run "sax2 --gpm --reinit" (save your config first).
It might work for you, or it might not. If it does, you have to alter rcgpm so that it does start on runlevel 5, or X will not have a mouse.
I got mine to work with this in XF86Config.. Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Name" "AutoDetected" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection .. then gpm -t ps2 at the console. My initial problem was that my mouse went into the keyboard, I had to put it in the mouse port. -- (o< //\ Powered by SuSE Linux V_/_ Virusproof. Crashproof. 5:34pm up 36 days, 28 min, 29 users, load average: 1.18, 1.15, 1.09 processes 3172808
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