Re: Mouse and trackpad problems
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:44:26PM -0500, cyn wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
>
> > and gpm is configured as '-m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3'.
> > Before I had installed another distro, RH 7.1, and I had no problems with
> > trackpad. Could you give me some suggestions on how to configure XF86Config
> > and/or gpm?
>
> gpm and XFree rarely can coexist together - gpm binds to the mouse device,
> and the mouse doesn't like multiple things trying to bind to it. If you
> have gpm working fully, I suggest having your XFree86 config read from
> /dev/gpmdata (as ps/2 as you already have) and give that a go. failing
> that - your best bet is to stop gpm in your .xinitrc and start it after
> your X session exits (and you might be able to manually start and stop it
> when going to virtual consoles, don't know).
>
> All in all, I gave up on it - and don't even bother running gpm (unless
> for some reason I *really really* need to... I can always fire up some
> xterms normally.
>
> -Martin Norland
>
>
//
excellent advice! (i had a similar problem--the mouse would lock after
a few clicks--on a new box today. # dpkg -r gpm did the trick.)
my mouse is happy (and so am i).
thx.
b.
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