I am sorry to tell you that but you are clearly off-topic here with your explaination on how to setup gpm to repeat data for X. Read the previous mail, it speak about a problem when using X (the mouse is already configured). The mouse freeze under heavy CPU use. Christophe On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:09:41PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Rudy Gevaert (rudy@zeus.rug.ac.be) [020213 12:16]: > > My mouse also freezes in X, I have the same X installed in redhat, with > > the latest matrox drivers, and in sid also. In redhat my mouses freezes > > but when I switch to console and back to X my mouse works fine (I can > > live with this), but in sid it's stuck. The only thing that helps is to > > kill X. > > Do you use the mouse on the console? If not, the simplest answer is > probably to remove gpm. I find it useful to have the mouse on the > console, and my favorite mouse setup goes like this: > > (I have a logitech trackman marble, which follows the intellimouse > protocol (it has a wheel). It's plugged into my PS/2 mouse port.) > > I run gpm, telling it that my mouse is an imps2 connected on /dev/psaux. > I tell it repeat_type=raw, so that mouse data will be repeated on > /dev/gpmdata without translation (i.e. it will look just like the imps2 > read off of /dev/psaux). > > I tell X that my mouse is an ImPS/2 on /dev/gpmdata. That's it! Then my > mouse works on the console, and it works in X. > > Again, though, if you don't really want the console mouse, you'll > probably save yourself some headache by just removing gpm and telling X > your mouse is on /dev/psaux. > > good times, > Vineet > > -- > Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area > Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/ > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right > to say it." --Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire, 1906 -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. --Faith Resnick
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