Re: gpm & X

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:48:14AM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:45:42AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> > It looks to me like a bad protocol or something or bad access point.
> > If you are using USB mouse as you indicated then you should access it
> > at /dev/input/mice instead of /dev/psaux. And specify PS/2 protocol
> > for both gpm and X.
> 
> Isnt that a devfs-only feature?  Or does USB somehow provide /dev/input?

I'm not sure if it's only for devfs but I don't have devfs in kernel I'm running - I created /dev/input/mice as told in one of the usb docs
and it runs perfectly. Thus, I think it's USB that provides /dev/input

mira:~> ls -ltr /dev/input
total 0
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      13,  63 Jun 10  2001 mice
mira:~> 


Hope this helps,
Adam