* ben (benfoley@rcn.com) [020213 15:26]: > On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:44 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * ben (benfoley@rcn.com) [020201 00:13]: > > > in /etc/gpm.conf, do > > > > > > repeat_type=raw > > > > > > and in /etc/X11/XF86Config, do > > > > > > Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" > > > > > > i'd be interested in your analysis of why this should work. all i know is > > > that it does. > > > > I just spoke to this in another thread (called "mouse freezes"). HTH. > > > > actually, you didn't. all you did was essentially repeat the gpm > configuration info. What I thought I added to it was the part about gpm repeating the untranslated mouse data in imps2 format on the /dev/gpmdata fifo. I guess I didn't make that too clear (or you already knew that and were looking for a deeper, lower-level explanation). I can try a little better, but I'm not sure exactly which part you're not getting. If I'm off the mark, try to help me try to hit it. Both processes (gpm and X) can't read from the same port at the same time. There's a few different things that could happen if they did: either one process wouldn't be allowed to try to read from it, or (worse) each process would get bits interleaved from the other. In the latter case, neither would get sane data in the format it was expecting, and you'd get erratic mouse behavior in both. When you tell gpm to act as a repeater, it reads directly from the port you assign it (/dev/psaux in this case) and repeats this data on a fifo (/dev/gpmdata by default) in the format you specify. Whatever format you give it, you can tell another process (usually X) to listen on that fifo in that format. If you tell it to use "raw", gpm just passes the data it reads from its input port unmodified onto its output fifo. Then you can tell X to interpret the data it reads from /dev/gpmdata as if it were reading directly from /dev/psaux without gpm. > the post that you're quoting was addressed to karsten. if > you're trying to emulate him, you'll have to do way better than this. Not at all; just my impression was that questions posted on the list were "up for grabs" to be answered on the list. You're free to send private emails if you only want certain people responding, or to ignore me and anyone else whose responses you don't like. 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
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