Here we go again.
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:10:32PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > As the gpm maintainer I will try and stay polite and explain some
> > things.
> >
> > <snip>
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > > I had the same problems when using the new defaults (-R ms3 and
> > > Intellimouse on /dev/gpmdata).
> >
> > Can you please give specifics?
>
> Yes. I have an old serial mousesystems on ttyS0. I configured gpm (1.17.8-18)
> with:
>
> device=/dev/ttyS0
> responsiveness=20
> repeat_type=ms3
> type=msc
> append=""
>
> the X sever (xserver-svga 3.3.6-10) with:
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "intellimouse"
> Device "/dev/gpmdata"
> EndSection
>
> and set the mouse acceleration in .xsession with:
>
> xset m 1 1
>
> With these settings the mouse works but it has a very annoying "deceleration"
> effect on the X cursor: when moving the mouse slowly the cursor has a normal
> speed but when moving it faster the cursor moves very slowly. Under console
> the mouse behaves normally. Using a mouse with this behavior makes you sick
> so I had to configure gpm and X with the default msc repeater type.
Have you tried it without the xset?
This is definitely a X acceleration error, nothing to do with gpm.
>
> > > Another nasty thing is that if you use the task-selection interface gpm
> > > is not installed by default and there is no way to add it manually to the
> > > package list.
> >
> > Eww, I will have to get that corrected.
>
> gpm should be installed by default or even better be included in the base
> system.
Perhaps, there are arguments both ways.
>
> > <snip>
> >
> > Repeating in /ANY/ protocol except ms3/IntelliMouse is NOT an option, it
> > will not work with X4, the ONLY protocol which will work for gpm
> > repeating to X4 is ms3/IntelliMouse.
>
> This seems not correct. I have never tried X4 but other users reported that
> msc on gpmdata works fine also with X4.
>
> Anyway if msc and other protocols didn't work with gpmdata I would consider
> this a severe bug of X4 which should be fixed as soon as possible.
File a bug against X4 then, but don't count on it being handled anytime
soon, and I don't feel like rewriting gpm to use something other then
fifos to communicate for repeating.
>
> > Raw is just screaming loudly for it to break, msc no longer works and
> > does not support the features of newer mice, there is exactly one
> > option, ms3/IntelliMouse.
> >
> > Further having X and gpm try to coexist without repeating is also a
> > non-option, on some systems it breaks badly.
> >
> > Thus, we have three possible choices.
> >
> > 1: gpm installed without X, no problems.
> >
> > 2: X installed without gpm, no mouse under console, but otherwise no
> > problems.
> >
> > 3: gpm and X installed with gpm repeating to X in the ms3/IntelliMouse
> > protocol.
> >
> > There are no other options, these are the only configurations which will
> > work on all systems.
>
> As I explained before this doesn't work on my system, so I suggest:
>
> 4: gpm and X installed with gpm repeating to X in the msc/MouseSystems
> protocol.
For values of 'doesn't work' which equals misset set X accel settings.
MouseSystems/msc also drops info for mouse with little features like the
wheel, and X4 attempts to speak to the mouse in said protocol.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
>
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