Re: PS/2 mouse under X.

[paulm@waitrose.com (paul marwick)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.33.0104141123240.5407-100000@sword.horyzont.net>,
Andrzej Swedrzynski <kokosz@earthdawn.pl> wrote:

> Recently I've installed Debian 2.2 potato. I tried to make my mo­
> use working under X but I can not. This is Logitech  M-S48a  PS/2
> mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't want even to move in
> X. I selected PS/2 as a mouse protocol and /dev/psaux for  device
> (it works for gpm). What can I do now?

I've had similar problems. Following suggestions here, I got my
Logitech Trackman Marble to work by setting up GPM as follows:

device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
repeat_type=raw
type=ps2
append=""

Once that was done, I set XFree up as follows:

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

The two vital things (in my case at least) were the repeat_type=raw
for GPM and the Device "/dev/gpmdata" in XFree.

paul.                 

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