Re: The quest for rodent power

["Kurt Yoder" <kylist@shcorp.com>]

I've never been able to get gpm working successfully, so I gave up on it.

That said, do you get any output if you do an "/etc/init.d/gpm start"? I
think there's also some messages it will write in /var/log. Check
/var/log/messages, look for a /var/log/gpm, etc.

Dunno where the gpm config stuff is kept, though it would seem strange to me
if it were tied in with the regular X stuff, since one can theoretically run
gpm without X installed at all. Maybe there's something in /etc for gpm
configs...

Harry Putnam said:
> Running woody (testing)
>
> I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really
> miss having my little rodent in text mode.
>
> Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine.
>
> I can't remember how to tell with no doubt where the mouse is
> connected. At which device.  I remember saying /dev/psaux during
> install but that was just a guess.
>
> Boot messages indicate gpm services are being started. But I have no
> functioning mouse in text mode.
>
> A grep of ps waux shows"
> ps waux|grep 'gpm'  turns up nothing
>
> The devices directory itself shows
> ls -l /dev/ |grep 'mouse\|psaux\|gpm'
>
> prw-r--r--    1 root  root       0 Mar  1 15:26 gpmdata
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root  root       7 Feb 28 21:41 mouse -> gpmdata
> crw-------    1 root  root 10,   1 Nov  4 14:52 psaux
> crw-rw----    1 root  root 10,  32 Nov  4 14:52 usbmouse
>
>>From posts here, I got the idea that the XF86Config mouse section is
> related to text mode mouse settings in some way.  That section of mine
> looks like this:
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> 	Driver
	"mouse"
> 	Option
	"CorePointer"
> 	Option
	"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
> 	Option
	"Protocol"		"PS/2"
> 	Option
	"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
> 	Option
	"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Mouse"
> 	Driver
	"mouse"
> 	Option
	"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
> 	Option
	"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option
	"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
> 	Option
	"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
> 	Option
	"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> EndSection
>
> How can I tell beyond doubt which device the mouse is on.  And get this
> thing configured and working.
>
>
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Kurt Yoder
Sport & Health network administrator