On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:16:57PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
| This one time, at band camp, rm@ednf.org said:
| > I an having weird things happen to my mouse on bootup, and through X.
| > Generic ps/2 mouse, windows type clone
| > I am trying different combinations of :
| > /dev/mouse
| > /dev/psaux (used by gpm)
| > and different protocols
| > protocol PS/2
| > protocol mousesystems
| > protocol IntelliMouse (used with a different mouse than above two)
| >
| > but the mouse if _still_ unstable. At the slightest touch it careers off
| > screen in some random direction, never to appear again, though upon
| > movement it squeals...
|
| This sounds like a wrong mouse protocol
I agree here. Try different protocols until one works. You might
want to also unplug the mouse sometimes to "reset" it's internal
state.
[...]
| It's often difficult to make gpm and X get along nicely,
What!?
Step by step process :
1) Configure gpm
a) use the real device (/dev/psaux)
b) use the correct protocol
c) repeat_type=raw
2) Configure X
a) use the repeater (/dev/gpmdata)
b) use the correct protocol!!
(the /same/ protocol as gpm is set to use)
What NOT to do :
1) tell gpm and X to fight over the same device file (eg /dev/psaux)
2) tell gpm and X to fight over which protocol to use (use the
same one for both, it's the same mouse after all!)
| so if you have no real reason to use gpm, I'd recommend dumping it.
That applies to any software in general, but don't give gpm a hard
time for people misconfiguring X and thinking it's gpm's fault :-).
-D
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