Re: Wheel Mouse

[Robert_L <robertsohn@sympatico.ca>]

On Friday 29 March 12:49, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>     "Johan" == Johan Ehnberg <johan@ehnberg.net> writes:
>
>     Johan> Hi!  Is there a good way to get my mouse wheel working
>     Johan> (under X) on my woody?  Another thing I was wondering is
>     Johan> why my mouse stops working under X when I install gpm.
>
> Johan,
>
> I have a Logitech USB wheel mouse. I have my mouse set up like this in
> XF86Config-4 :
<snip>
> The reason X stops working when you install (rather, start) gpm is
> that you probably have X and gpm reading off the same device.
<snip>
> Good luck,
> Shyamal

Interesting. I have them both working off the same device and have no such 
problem.  Its a usb MS optical (intellimouse)

Here is the running gpm process:
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2

Here is a couple of my XF86Config-4 lines for the mouse:
 Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
 Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"

And gpm runs while X is running:
/etc/rc2.d/S20gpm

I have a feeling that such problems also relate to using the wrong settings 
for gpm. (wrong protocol etc)  but don't know a lot about it.  But I had a 
similar problem once (not on debian) that was solved by making gpm use the 
imps2 protocol for that particular mouse.

all the best,
Robert_L


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