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Re: Wheel Mouse



> On the machine that I am typing this message on it seems I can have
> gpm and X co-exist quite peacefully, but I still set up X to read of
> /dev/gpmdata (I installed woody on this home made machine last week,
> so I figured I'd do it "right," whatever that means).
> 
> However, on a laptop I have (a Compaq Armada M300) I can't seem to get
> gpm and X to share the built in PS/2 mouse, so I simply turned off GPM
> in the X run levels I invented (though I could have gpm do the repeat
> thing to /dev/gpmdata, frankly though, I never miss gpm).

Make sure that when you  run the gpm-config script that you specify the repeat 
type to 'raw', then you can edit XF86Config to read from the mouse device /dev/
gpmdata with a PS/2 protocol.

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Stephen W. Juranich                             sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering             http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington                http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli


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