Re: What's the deal with the mouse?

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

steph@silvertail.coastalden.net wrote:
> 
> Howdy, All -
> 
> Have gpm running beautifully on the console, sucking supremely in X, and the configuration is as it should be, eg, i'ts a ps/2 mouse, needs to emulate 3 buttonsand no particular weird parameters for it.
> 
> Ye, it's supported in the kernel. Yes, gpm is running. Yes, i'm getting mildly peeved, especially having found little fault w/ debian so far.
> 
> Could someone please help?

If your running gpm, then start X, X can't get the ps/2 mouse because
gpm has it.

Try changing your XF86Config file to use /dev/gpmdata instead of
/dev/psaux. X should then use the mouse through gpm, and everything
should be fine.

HTH
Matthew