Re: gpm, USB mouse, Linux 2.4.4
On 22 May 2001, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Jacob" == Jacob Kuntz <jpk@cape.com> writes:
> >> 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.
$ ls /etc/rc3.d/S*hotplug
/etc/rc3.d/S20hotplug
$ ls /etc/rc3.d/S*gpm
/etc/rc3.d/S20gpm
$ echo -e 'S20hotplug\nS20gpm'|sort
S20gpm
S20hotplug
This was the problem on 2.4 for me, at any rate: the gpm startup script would
run, and fail to find the mouse; and /then/ USB support would be initialized.
Changing the order of the scripts took care of the problem here.
If restarting gpm doesn't fix the problem, I don't know. Do you have hotplug
installed, or are you still using usbmgr?
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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