The X / mouse touble
This posting refers to my (minimal) installation report posted yesterday:
The problem with X was, that the default configuration of gmp was
# gpmconfig
Configuring gpm (mouse event server):
Current configuration: -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -R ms3 -l
"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"
Device: /dev/psaux
Type: ps2
Repeat_Type: ms3
Append: -l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"
Do you want to change anything (Y/n)?
In X I configured for the mouse as usual
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
The result was a not working mouse.
After investigation of bugs.debian.org (report number 25236
"xf86setup: XF86Setup should try to get some mouse info from gpm [UPSTREAM]"
) I got the idea. It is nice to configure the mouse once in gpm and X gets the
information from there.
So the working solution is
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
My suggestions:
0. Quick fix: just default Retype_Type to none in gpmconfig (this should be
done at least for potato. Should I file a bug report?).
1. Tell the user during gpmconfig, that the selection affects X configuration.
I was happy that a PS/2 mouse was suggested, tested it and continued without
thinking about it.
2. Tell the user during xf86config, that the gpm configuration can be reused
(assuming that gpmconfig has the reuse default, i.e. Branden and Zephaniah
should decide which way can be gone for potato and woody).
3. As a long term solution, a protocol name like Xnative instead of Microsoft
would be nice.
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