Re: pointing device on thinkpad

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:25, Tom Badran wrote:
> On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get
> > > install gpm)
> > >
> > > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm
> > > device rather than directly from the mouse
> >
> > Aah.  You don't happen to know exactly how that configuration
> > should look?  On installing gpm, it does
>
> Sorry mate, i dont use it so i cant be exactly sure.
>
> The gpm configuration looked fine, then do a dpkg-reconfigure
> xfree86-common (or is it xserver-xfree86) and on the question about
> the mouse there you use /dev/gpmdata (or something similiar, its in
> the list of available options)

Thanks for trying to help.  Just for the record, that did not work.  
The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2.
/dev/gpmdata kills it completely.  In neither case will it work 
outside of X.  Hey-ho, so it goes.

-- 
richard