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Re: Installation using 2.2.16-2000-07-14 boot disks



On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:27:05AM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:

> Second, in the default config gpm interprets the data of the mouse and
> produces other data in its "own" format. However gpm doesn't do a good job,

IIRC it actually produces some particular mouse protocol, but same
difference.

> resulting in me not being able to draw anything that even looks like a circle
> -- which works perfectly when using ttyS0. There seems to be a switch to gpm
> to have it pass the raw data, but I wonder how that would work with a PS/2
> mouse...

It worked just fine when I tried it.  The current behaviour is very
confusing - there's no hint that GPM is going to pass on data in any
format other than raw, so when you tell X what sort of mouse you have
you obviously tell it whatever the physical mouse is.

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