Re: strange mouse behaviour -- gpm

[Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven <kuijf@kabelfoon.nl>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:26:18PM -0500, Preston Landers wrote:
> Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven writes:
>  > I can't get my mouse configured with gpm (slink). Normally when X
> starts, the mouse doesn't work at all. Sometimes, when I press
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace a couple of times it starts working and somtimes,
> the only way to get it working is to give the command gpm -k. When I
> give a gpm -k, the program will hang and I have to use Ctrl-C to
> deblock it. After I have tried to kill gpm, I can press
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and the mouse will work (most of the times). I just
> have a very basic two-button serial mouse.
>  > 
> 
> 
> Hi there, did you ever solve this problem?
> 
> Some things to check:
> 
> You need to tell X to use GPM as its mouse device.
> 
> In /etc/X11/XF86Config
> 
> Section "Pointer"
>    Protocol "BusMouse"
>    Device "/dev/gpmdata"
> 
> But you must also configure gpm to output data to X.
> 
> In /etc/gpm.config put your normal parameters but make sure the append 
> = line has an -R and -l in it.
> 
> At least that works for me.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Preston Landers

Tanks Preston, I have tried it but it did not work (I had to use the rescue disk to get te system working again). I the communication between gpm and X is not the problem, but the communication between gpm and the mouse is.

Can't I just remove gpm?

Thanks,

Robert-Jan