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