Re: Changing mouse drivers
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
>
> > I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the
> > steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)?
>
> Reload the OS? That's windows-world thinking. First, if you installed
> the gpm package, you'll need to run 'gpmconfig' as root, and tell gpm
> about your mouse.
>
> Then, assuming you have X, you'll have to re-run XF86Setup (stop X
> first by quitting your session and, if you have xdm running, doing:
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> ) Inside XF86Setup, say "yes" to use the old configuration and all you
> should have to do is pick your new mouse parameters. (be certain to read
> through all of the dialog boxes that come up there, and test the new mouse
> setting by "applying" the changes)
>
> You shouldn't even need to reboot!
If you're using the -R option in gpmconfig with /dev/gpmdata in XF86Config,
you don't need to make any changes to X. It also seems to avoid the problems
that some people have reported with their mice when switching between X and
VCs.
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