Re: getting an adb mouse working with xserver-fbdev

[Kevin Puetz <puetzk@iastate.edu>]

wjdukes@yahoo.com said:
> My current mouse settings are 'Protocol "BusMouse"' 'Device "/dev/
> adbmouse"' which are the settings I gave gpm during its installation.
> If anyone has had any success with getting adb mouses to work in X or
> can think of something that would help, I'd very much appreciate it.  

I've never figured out what breaks it/makes it work, but on some machines gpm 
and X fight over the mouse (so that the mouse is broken in X which starts 
later) and on some it works correctly. You could try stopping gpm (/etc/init.d 
gpm stop)...