Re: Xfree mouse trouble

[Jeremiah Savage <jsavage@ductape.net>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Jared Johnson wrote:

> 
> > screen and briefly displaying popup menus eventhough I'm not pressing any
> > buttons. I can use the mouse just fine in terminal mode to highlight
> > text and paste the text using the middle button, so I think my hardware
> > is
> > ok. Any clues?
> 
> A very easy way to fix this would be to use the mouse in X through GPM (the
> program that is used to support the mouse in terminal mode).  You can do
> this by running gpmconfig and telling it to use the -R flag (or optionally
> by editing /etc/gpm.conf to do the same thing); then, when you set up X,
> set it up to use the device /dev/gpmdata and the protocol MouseSystems.
> 

Thanks for the help. I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the Pointer
Device is "/dev/gpmdata" and the Protocol "Microsoft" (how horrible...)
and the mouse works now.

Jeremiah