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Re: Mouse functionality



On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:09:55PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
| Hey,
| 
| could you be a little more specific?  Are you having the problems in the 
| console, or X?  If it is the console, you will /need/ to be running gpm to 
| use the mouse at all... if it's X, then you don't need gpm (in fact i find it 
| easier to use if you don't have gpm running w/ X, although I'm sure some 
| would disagree), but it's a problem w/ your XF86Config[-4]

I'll disagree :-).  People seem to have lots of trouble getting gpm
and X to play nicely together, but once you know the basics it is easy :

1)  pick the right protocol in gpm
2)  set gpm repeat_type to 'raw'
3)  use the _same_ protocol in X

If you do that you'll have no problems.

-D

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