Re: mouse not working in x

[Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:08:51PM +0200, thus spake Kerstin Hoef-Emden:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote:
> 
> > Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse
> > driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all
> > mistaken?
> 
> It is possible to use a PS/2 mouse in X11 without stopping gpm. You just

Indeed - the relevant section of my XF86Config file reads



# **********************************************************************
# Pointer section
# **********************************************************************

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "PS/2"
    Device      "/dev/gpmdata"

HTH

Glyn M

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