Re: PS2 mouse and gpm

[John Bagdanoff <bagdanof@home.com>]

I have a logitech wheelmouse, heres my config:

gpm.conf:

 device=/dev/psaux
  responsiveness=
   type=imps2
    append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""

XF86Config:

Section "Pointer"
   Protocol        "MouseManPlusPS/2"
   #   Device          "/dev/gpmdata"
      Device          "/dev/psaux"
         Resolution      100
	    Buttons         3
	       ZAxisMapping 4 5
	       EndSection                                                                                                    
John

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:53:37PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote:
> KerstinKerstin Hoef-Emden scripsit:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >On 21 Jul 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >This setting did not work for me. I have the following lines in
> >/etc/X11/XF86Config:
> >
> >Section "Pointer"
> >    Protocol    "MouseSystems"
> >    Device      "/dev/gpmdata"
> > 
> Well... I had (before removing gpm altogether) the same config as
> Kerstin. However, and this is _why_ I removed gpm, I couldn't get my
> ps/2 wheel mouse working... I had a look at man gpm and it says that
> this setting works fot 3buttons mouses... Now, my mouse has 4 bouttons 
> + the wheel, which infact make it a 6-button mouse. I have 2
> questions. 
> 
> First, is it possible to have gpm working and X getting
> Button4 and Button5 events (the ones produced by the wheel)? I tried
> to put type=raw in gpmconfig but it didn't help).
> 
> Second, anybody knows a way to use all the 4 buttons? I know that X
> standard says that there are at most 5 buttons on a mouse, but it
> should be possible to configure the extra button to produce a
> KeyPressed event, say binding it to the Alt key...
> 
> TYA for help
> 
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