Re: GPM for mouse
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | > [...]
> | > | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with,
> | >
> | > Care to explain? (I disagree, gpm is a piece of cake)
> |
> | gpm complicates configuring XF86 badly from my experience. It's like
> | trying to grow anything hydroponically: It can be done, but it really
> | complicates things.
>
> The complication is eliminated if you follow two guidelines :
> 1) don't try to have two processes fighting over a device, let
> gpm have the device and X reads from gpm's repeater
>
> 2) use the same protocol for both (duh! it's the same mouse, it
> better be the same protocol :-)) (and set gpm's
> repeat_type to raw)
>
> I've never had any interaction problems following these rules. I have
> seen many people get confused and/or misconfigured by the combination,
> but the above has always worked.
>
Ok. This thread has piqued (not to be confused with peaked or peeked) my
interest. I've just set up a Debian machine and was hoping to use gpm,
since I like to use alot of console apps in virtual terminals. Having gpm
running was wreaking (not to be confused with reeking) havoc with the
mouse under X - even though I had X trying to read mouse output from
/dev/gpmdata. The only way I could get the mouse cursor to get back to
normal behavior under X was killall gpm. So, what was I doing wrong? I'd
be delighted if I could get gpm to cooperate with the mouse cursor under
X.
Thanks, James
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