Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more
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"Brian W. Carver" wrote:
> Thank you very much. The PS/2 mouse now works after I did this in bash:
>
> apt-get remove gpm
>
> The mouse started working in X immediately.
>
> It was then much easier to try to deal with my screen resolution problem.
>
> It seems to me that xf86config does not allow you to tell it to default to 32bpp
> and so it kept booting X with only 8bpp (I think.) So, while this may not have
> been an ideal way to fix it, what worked was running Gnotepad to edit the
> XF86Config file and just commenting out (with #) the three sections dealing with
> 8bpp 16bpp and 24bpp. By only giving it a 32bpp option, X starts with that and
> the screen looks great now.
>
> Next project is getting this thing on the internet. I have to install the
> network cards (using modconf?) and figure out how to set up DHCP. I have two
> ethernet cards in this box, one connected to the cable modem and the other going
> to a hub. The hub then connects up the other computers in my home office, which
> are both running Win98 (for now). I've tried to do some reading on internet
> connection sharing via IPMASQUERADING, but some of those pages may as well be
> written in Mandarin. If someone can point me to a newbie guide to getting this
> lan on the net via DHCP I'd appreciate it.
>
> Again, I'm running 2.2r5 potato and all my system details are further up this
> thread. Thanks.
>
> Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:43:35PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > MY PROBLEM: I got the PS/2 mouse to work in the XFree86 setup by
> > > choosing dev/psaux instead of dev/mouse, and it worked perfectly during
> > > THAT setup routine. BUT, when I now boot into X (man was that an
> > > accomplishment!) the mouse won't move at all at first and then when I
> > > try to move it, it is very erratic, jumping all over the screen and
> > > clicking buttons when I don't click.
> >
> > This should really be a FAQ by now. I think someone put it somewhere,
> > but where ;) ? Anyway, my guess is: You have gpm running to use the
> > mouse in the consoles. If that is the case, you have two options:
> >
> > 1) Disable gpm. This is the easy option. For verbosity's sake, typing
> >
> > apt-get remove gpm
> >
> > as root should do the trick.
> >
> > 2) Make X and gpm cooperate. This is more difficult. Basically, your
> > /etc/gpm.conf should contain at least these lines:
> >
> > device=/dev/psaux
> > repeat_type=raw
> > type=ps2
> >
> > There will be some other stuff there as well. The repeat_type line tells
> > gpm to repeat the data exactly as it gets it. Other programs (i.e., X),
> > can read that data from /dev/gpmdata. So now you need to change the line
> > in XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) where it says /dev/psaux to read
> > /dev/gpmdata. That's it. Restart gpm and X (in that order) and you're
> > done.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > --
> > Note that I use Debian version 3.0
> > Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown
> >
> > Matijs
> >
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