karrottop wrote: Ok, that worked, kinda. I am getting some sort of mouse action, I can randomly highlight, but I am getting no curser. At least I am one step closer
Kent West wrote:
Now try playing with the protocol. Generally a scroll-wheel ps/2 mouse will be "imps2". See "man gpm" or enter "help" (IIRC) when prompted for the protocol.
karrottop wrote:
well I can click to highlight text. But I am not getting any arrow, or box as it may be for the pointer. I would imagine that the protocol of the mouse itself is functioning correctly as I can can highlight and drag that higlight, I just cant pick where that highlight is going to be.
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===== Now to get on to your mouse issues . . . .You're not doing this from a terminal window from within X, are you? I would suggest shutting down X altogether to remove it from the equation for now. You're probably running a login manager, such as wdm or gdm; if so, logout of X, then Ctrl-Alt-Fn to get to a shell, and as root, run "/etc/init.d/kdm stop" (or 'gdm' instead of 'kdm', or 'xdm', or 'wdm' - one of these should do the trick).
No restart gpm ("/etc/init.d/gpm restart"). Does your mouse work properly?
If not, what type of mouse do you have? How many buttons? Scrollwheel?
What type of connection: serial? usb? ps/2? What have you specified as
the location and as the protocol in /etc/gpm.conf?