Re: GUI woes

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:15:40AM +0530, shyamk wrote:
>  am having problems with using my Logitech 3 - button PS/2
>  mouse on GUI .I do get it in the text-mode console , but when I startx
>  and Ctrl - C    off the following is what I get :-
...
>  Warning: /dev/psaux unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate
>  ioctl for device)

You do use gpm, don't you?
X can't read from /dev/psaux as gpm already reads from it.

reconfigure gpm (in /etc/gmp.conf) to use:

  repeat=raw
  type=ps2

and reconfigure X (in /etc/X11/XF86Config) to use

   Protocol        "PS/2"
   Device          "/dev/gpmdata"

in section 'Pointer'.

-- 
groetjes, carel