Re: The quest for rodent power

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:29:24AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> >
> >> > But since the mouse works in X, I assume that that X reads from
> >> > /dev/psaux.
> >> 
> >> Edited gpm.conf:
> >> 
> >> device=/dev/psaux
> >> responsiveness=
> >> repeat_type=raw
> >> type=ps2
> >> append=""
> >> sample_rate=
> >> 
> >> [...] Thanks for the tutorial overview of how it works
> >> 
> >> >> How can I tell beyond doubt which device the mouse is on.
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > see output of "dmesg"
> 
> Thought I had already mentioned that neither dmesg or
> /var/log/messages has any info about gpm.
> grep gpm /var/log/messages only shows the stale pid being removed
> dmesg|grep gpm <nothing> 

Just curious, but what does `ps ax | grep gpm' tell, is there a running
gpm after you started it? (and be aware its gpm not gmp:)

-- 
groetjes, carel