Re: gpm, USB mouse, Linux 2.4.4
>>>>> "Jacob" == Jacob Kuntz <jpk@cape.com> writes:
Jacob> Have you tried booting an older kernel?
No. Not yet. That would cost me another PPP connection to my upstream
qInternet provider :-(
>> longer working with gpm (it works fine for X; although gpm
>> doesn't work even with X not running). I have tried restarting
>> gpm, but it doesn't help (the pointer never appears). Any ideas
>> why? My gpm.conf has:
Jacob> Most people run gpm in repeater mode, and point X to
Jacob> /dev/gpmdata. IIRC, gpm and X packages do this by default.
I don't think that is the problem here, because the problem occured
before X even started.
Jacob> That's pretty useless if you don't tell us anything about
Jacob> your hardware. On one system, I have a usb microsoft
Jacob> wheelmouse, and this config works pretty well:
Jacob> /etc/gpm.conf: device=/dev/input/mice repeat_type=ms3
Jacob> type=ps2
Sounds similar to my setup.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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