RE: Xfree mouse trouble
I was just wondering, what are the differences (if any) between using gpm
and the x-mouse?...and what are the advantages?
Patrick Cheong
Information Systems Assurance
Measat Broadcast Network Systems
E-mail: patrick_cheong@astro.com.my
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremiah Savage [SMTP:jsavage@ductape.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 6:01 PM
> To: Jared Johnson
> Cc: debian-user
> Subject: Re: Xfree mouse trouble
>
> 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
>
>
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