Re: Erratic mouse
Thus spake Nori Heikkinen (nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu):
> i hadn't. now i did (just manually edited /etc/X11/XF86Config ; was
> that the right way?), and the mouse is great. but i have no idea why
> it helped -- what does /dev/psaux have to do with /dev/mouse, which
> appears just to be /dev/gpmdata? and why should i have specified *it*
> instead of /dev/gpmdata? why would specifying the latter cause it to
> fuck up as it did?
/dev/psaux is your raw mouse input. /dev/gpmdata is a temp file
written by gpm, the console mouse tool. The theory is that gpm and X
both try to grab the raw data and get in each other's way. I've had
no luck at all with /dev/gpmdata, but I don't particularly need gpm
so I uninstalled it.
>
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
>
> should that be PS/2 for any reason? it's working as is, and also
> works with that line as "PS/2".
I think ImPS/2 is an IntelliMouse protocol, for M$ mice. Dunno, but
I'd guess the protocol impacts your wheely usage. The XFree.org
section on mice might be a good read for you, you can pick the
protocol that best matches your rat. That should solve many wheel
probs as well. Also, you have to tell Xhow many buttons you have,
a wheel counts as two (one up, one down) or three (as before but
with a third for clicking the wheel if your wheel is clickable,
mine is.) So an Option "Buttons" 4 (or 5) might be in order.
And then there's your Xmodmap. Whee!
--Hsoj
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