Re: More cheese nibbler questions
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:53:31AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: Stock woody install from testing
> Kernel 2.2.20
>
> Comments: X is installed but not running for these tests
> Mouse works in X but not in console
>
>
> If I say:
>
> # /etc/init.d/gpm force-reload
> Stopping mouse interface server: gpm.
> Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
>
> at the command line then `ps waux|grep gpm '
> should show some thing with gpm in it ...right?
Yes, if all's well. But as I stated in an earlier posting, we still
don't know for sure that your /etc/init.d/gpm is correct. Any reason
you're not willing to share it's contents with us just to eliminate
the off change that it *is* mangled?
> Should lsmod also show a module running that is mouse realated?
That depends. Is your ps/2 driver compiled in or compiled as a
seperate module? Look through /boot/config-.... for the awnser.
> Neither of these happen here. Is it likely that upgrading to a newer
> kernel or reconfiguring the present one will help this situation?
No, as you noted in previous postings, it works in X in a `X-only' setup,
so no need to question whether the ps/2 port works under Linux.
Or, it might be that X doesn't let go of /dev/psaux.
To exclude that possibility:
make sure X is killed
start gpm
If this still doesn't work, it's gpm's error, so concentrate on it
and try to get it to run without that /etc/init.d layer as proposed
in several earlier posts.
> cat /etc/gpm.conf
>
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=
> repeat_type=ms3
Please don't use anything else here but "raw", it complicates matters
unwieldly if you do.
> type=ps2
> append=""
> sample_rate=
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groetjes, carel
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