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Re: gpm, USB mouse, Linux 2.4.4



On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:03:05AM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> 
> > Most people run gpm in repeater mode, and point X to /dev/gpmdata. IIRC, gpm
> > and X packages do this by default.
> 
> Do *NOT* run gpm in repeater mode. It's evil (since gpm is sometimes not
> able to repeat correctly what comes in from the mouse - it's not able to
> repeat the wheel correctly here f.ex.). Gpm should be able to detect a
> switch into X and leave the mouse alone and start reading data again when
> you switch back into the console.
so use:
repeat_type=raw
with that everything that comes in, will go right back out
> 
> > repeat_type=ms3
> 
> Comment that line out and use the native mouseport inside X too, that
> means *nothing* like the following:
> 
> >        Option          "Device"                "/dev/gpmdata"
> >        Option          "Protocol"              "IntelliMouse"
> 
> *t
> 
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