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Re: Erratic mouse



also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.11.0619 +0100]:
> i hadn't.  now i did (just manually edited /etc/X11/XF86Config ; was
> that the right way?), and the mouse is great.  but i have no idea why
> it helped -- what does /dev/psaux have to do with /dev/mouse, which
> appears just to be /dev/gpmdata?  and why should i have specified *it*
> instead of /dev/gpmdata?  why would specifying the latter cause it to
> fuck up as it did?

because when i installed your machine, i had just been told about
gpmdata, and i liked the idea. it was also supposedly the only way to
get the scroll wheel working on X3.3.6. but it didn't meet up to the
promises.

psaux is the PS/2 port on the back of your machine, where the mouse is
plugged in.

> should that be PS/2 for any reason?  it's working as is, and also
> works with that line as "PS/2".  

do PS/2 then. i don't even know what ImPS/2 is. but also: never touch a
running system.

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