Re: Beware the potatoe mouse
Something that'll probably work:
Stop gpm when using X, that'll probably allow you to use your mouse in X
Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> This is an early warning concerning mouse function, whose relevance to
> you will depend upon your particular hardware and XF86Config file.
>
> Currently all is fine on my desktop which is mostly a Slink/Stable
> installation. The gpm console mouse daemon is running with affecting my
> good functionality under Xwindows. In my XF86Config, the default
> selection for mouse, /dev/mouse, is fine, where in my file system
> /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0. It's releavant that
> ls -l /dev/g*
> reports no devices.
>
> The same was true for my Compaq Armada laptop until yesterday, except
> /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux supporting a touchpad mouse. When I upgraded
> gpm from Frozen with
> dpkg -i gpm_1.17.8-16
> Xwindows mouse function was lost. Degrading back to Stable with
> dpkg -i gpm_1.14-3
> DID NOT cure the problem. After much hunting around the problem was
> unraveled.
>
> Under gpm_1.17.8-16, /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctrl were created and the
> mouse symbolic link switched WITHOUT warning:
> /dev/mouse -> /dev/gpmdata
> which didn't serve my Xwindows at all well. Within XF86Config changing
> /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux did fix the Xwindows problem, though I also had
> to "/etc/init.d/gpm stop" before startx.
>
> Also for my hardware at least the Stable gpm_1.17.8-1 is better.
>
> A regular Bug report has been filed, but this may save some of you
> problems.
>
> MarvS
>
>
> /dev/mousr ->
>
>
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