Re: gpm? how do I get this running?
On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 23:08, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>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?
>
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