Re: PS2 mouse and gpm

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

Ethan Pierce <oldschool@vermontel.net> writes:

> My main goal is just to get my middle mouse button working on my mouseman
> + ps/2 mouse.  The paste does work, unfortunately only with l+r buttons
> combined instead of the middle wheel button.  It used to work in Mandrake
> :( and Ive been so pleased with debian that I wont switch back.

I had these problems too, but now the combination of X *and* gpm works
flawlessly with a logitech 3-button mouse with the following gpm.conf:

   device=/dev/psaux
   responsiveness=
   type=ps2
   append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""

and the following lines in XF86Config:

      Section "Pointer"
        Protocol        "PS/2"
        Device  "/dev/mouse"
      EndSection

/dev/mouse points to /dev/psaux!

Be sure that there is no 'emulate 3 buttons' option in neither
conffile.

Good luck,
joachim