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Re: IMWheel help



I notice in your config that you don't have gpm being used as a repeater
device (I.E. the -R option).  That won't work will it?  I've always had
to make gpm repeat and have X use /dev/gpmdata in order to make gpm and
X work correctly with the mouse.  How can you get gpm and X to both work
without that option?  Is your /dev/mouse a symlink to /dev/psaux as I am
assuming?

I was able to get the scrolling wheel to work if I disabled gpm and used
the IMPS/2 protocol in the X config file (along with the ZAxisMapping),
but I couldn't get it to work with /dev/gpmdata and MouseSystems
protocol, which are the two I've always had to use to get X and gpm to
play nice.  Is there another way?

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: IMWheel help

> On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:21:22AM -0500, robhr@core.com wrote:
> > I'm trying to get m MS wheel mouse to work in X, but am having no 
> luck. 
> > I've gotten everything working but the wheel, and I'm tried 
> installing> imwheel and reading the docs, but the wheel still 
> doesn't work.  I'm
> > using the mouse in X via gpm (/dev/gpmdata), and nothing I have 
> tried> has worked.  I've looked at the scrolling wheel help page, 
> but it didn't
> > help either.  According to the imwheel homepage, imwheel is 
> supposed to
> > come with a special version of gpm, but that doesn't seem to be 
> the case
> > with the Debian package.  Can anyone help my get the wheel 
> working?  Do
> > I need that special version of gpm?  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> The following works for me:
> 
> In /etc/X11/XF86Config (/dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux):
> 
> Section "Pointer"
>    Protocol    "IMPS/2"
>    Device      "/dev/mouse"
>    ZAxisMapping  4 5
>    Buttons 7
> 
> In /etc/gpm.conf:
> 
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=25
> type=imps2
> append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""
> repeat_type=
> 
> -- 
> Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          nielsen@oz.net
> Bainbridge Island, WA                      http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
> 
> 



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